I’m now back home in Cyprus for a few weeks and after an intense few days of cleaning and gardening and needing an escape, I linked up with a good friend who enjoys poking around the old villages in our district with a camera and I was very happy to find that she also loves doors!

We headed off to explore the village of Theletra in the Paphos district of Cyprus. The old village of Theletra is nestled half-way up the mountain and the new village is now built above. The old village was abandoned because of an earthquake that made the village susceptible to landslides. The exact date is not verified.

But, I found it difficult to find doors in Theletra, there are frames, with views, but every abandoned house is open to the elements, but I did find one…

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Old Theletra, in the middle, New Theletra on top…

Through the frame…

Flora by the roadside…

An abandoned vista…

Half a door…

I think someone is living in the village, those plants look watered…

Back to the roots…

Pied a terre, literally..

A small wall icon home, no doors though…

No doors or roof…

Church seats, abandoned to the elements…

Collapsing inwards…

Even though the village is empty, someone still lights a votive candle in the wall icon…

And the view from the village…

I found the only doors at the village church. The outer doors were modern, unattractive and not worthy of inclusion sadly, but inside, finally a worthy door centrally placed in the Iconostasis ( In Eastern Christianity an iconostasis (plural: iconostases) is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a church.)

The door, in the Church, part of the Iconostasis…

Linking with Thursday Doors, hosted by Norm Frampton. Pop on over to his link, click on the blue frog link at the end of his post and check out some gorgeous doors this week…