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International Youth Year

European Music Year

Pulpit (St. Lazarus Church, Larnaca)

In 1955, following many years of diplomatic efforts when Great Britain never accepted to discuss the question of self- determination (its answer was always a curt " the subject is closed""), and the United Nations for years did not make a stand, a…

These priceless mosaics from the church of our Lady of Kanakaria in the Karpass peninsula are early Byzantine master pieces dating from the 6th century A.D. or earlier. The tesserae used for the mosaics are of various colored glass, glass capped with…

Virgin Mary and Elizabeth (St. John Monastery Lampadistis)

Many harbors resemble embraces, but Kyrenia’s above all; the tightest, the warmest and the sweetest. I will never forget the small harbor of Kyrenia… The only thing I could do on learning of the destruction that came about was to say and to…

Nativity Scene (St. John Monastery Lampadistis)

Merchant Shipping in Cyprus existed since 1963 with its headquarters at the port of Famagusta where Cyprus ships were registered. After the Turkish invasion of 1974, Famagusta port and all other ports in the occupied part of the island were closed…

This fresco shows the Virgin Mary approaching the devout Symeon with Christ presentation of Christ. She is followed by Joseph holding two doves in his hands as an offering to the Temple. Behind Symeon on the right, the prophetess Anna utters through…