Apostolos Andreas Monastery, Greek Orthodox monastery on Cape Apostolos Andreas, Famagusta District, Cyprus

Apostolos Andreas Monastery is a stone complex of tan and light gray masonry just south of Cape Apostolos Andreas. Its taller section has a flat facade with two small arched openings near the top, topped by a small domed belfry holding a bell. Below, a broad arch sits beside two rectangular windows, while a long lower wing runs at an angle, fronted by a colonnade of slender columns above a wall with a large arch and small windows. Broad stone steps lead down from the front.

Tradition holds that Saint Andrew's ship was blown off course and struck rocks at the cape; when he came ashore, he struck the rocks with his staff and a healing spring gushed forth, restoring the sight of the ship's captain. A fortified monastery stood here in the 12th century, and Isaac Komnenos negotiated his surrender to Richard the Lionheart from it. The main church dates to the 18th century, the main buildings to a century later, and mass pilgrimage grew only in the 20th century.

Both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots regard the monastery as holy, and it was once called "the Lourdes of Cyprus". It is not run by a settled community of monks but by a changing group of volunteer priests and laymen. Pilgrims come for votive prayers, and the story of Maria Georgiou, reunited with her kidnapped son here after a dream in 1912, is told to explain the mass pilgrimage of the 20th century.

The monastery lies just south of Cape Apostolos Andreas, the island's north-easternmost point, in Rizokarpaso on the Karpas Peninsula. Reaching it means a long drive out along the peninsula; few facilities stand nearby. Pilgrims returned in growing numbers after crossing points opened in 2004, so the site can be busy on feast days.

A bi-communal technical committee created in 2008 coordinated the restoration. The Church of Cyprus and the EVKAF Administration each gave €2,500,000, and USAID added €25,000, after Archbishop Chrysostomos II had initially refused to sign a plan that named the Church only as donor.