Panagia Theotokos and Agios Iakovos, Trikomo

In the centre of Trikomo, 300 metres apart, stand a 12th-century church with a Komnenian Pantokrator in its dome and a tiny 15th-century chapel.

Panagia Theotokos was built in the 12th century. Its highlight is Christ Pantokrator in the dome, an outstanding Cypriot example of the early Komnenian style, with scenes from the Life of the Virgin on the walls. It is a double church: a second aisle, associated with the Latin rite, was added to the Byzantine building later. Today it houses an icon museum with rare examples of medieval Cypriot iconography.

Agios Iakovos, the chapel of Saint James, dates from the 15th century. A cross-in-square chapel, it is one of the smallest churches in Cyprus and stands on the central square.

Trikomo was the birthplace of both the archaeologist Vassos Karageorghis and Georgios Grivas. After 1974 its Greek Cypriots left, Turkish Cypriots from the Skala quarter of Larnaca were resettled here, and the town took the name İskele, the Turkish form of Skala. The main mosque of the Skala they left behind is the Grand Mosque of Larnaca.

The site lies in the northern part of the island, which has not been under the control of the Republic of Cyprus since 1974. It is reached through the official crossing points.