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Byzantine Fresco Chapel

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Byzantine Fresco Chapel

The Byzantine Fresco Chapel is a part of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, near the University of St. Thomas, and from February 1997 to February 2012 it displayed the only intact Byzantine frescoes of this size and importance in the entire western hemisphere. The Byzantine frescoes were taken from the church of St. Evphemianos in Lysi, Cyprus in the 1980s. In September 2011 the Collection announced that the frescos would be permanently returned to Cyprus in February 2012, following the conclusion of a long-term loan agreement with the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus. On March 4, 2012, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel closed. The future use of the chapel remains undecided. The works had been presented at the museum by agreement with the Church of Cyprus, their owners, but the Church decided not to extend the loan further. They will not return to their original home as Lysi is now in Turkish Northern Cyprus, but will be displayed at the Byzantine Museum in Nicosia.

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