Byzantine Chapel in Houston

The Byzantine Fresco Chapel is the repository in the United States for the only intact Byzantine frescoes of this size and significance in the western hemisphere. These masterworks from the 13th years a dome and an apse were torn and stolen out of a chapel near Lysi in the Turkish used by section of Cyprus in the 1980's, cut into parts and smuggled off the isle by thieves prepared to deal them part by part(www.discoveramerica.com).

The fresco fragments were released from the robbers by The Menil base with the information and acceptance of the Church of Cyprus, the rightful ...