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Cherubim’s from the church of Agia Marina from Yialousa Community in occupied Karpasia - occupied area of Cyprus. Cherubim’s of the Church of St. Luke, St. Marina and St. Thyrsos that survived the Turkish invasion in 1974.

A chevron design, decorates the west portal of the south door of the central bay. The motif consists of superimposed wavy red and black lines in turn, on a white setting.

Children in Library

Αesop, (6th century BC) was a Greek legendary fabulist. The Roman poet Phaedrus popularized Aesop’s fables in the 1st century AD and in 1668 La Fontaine immortalized the stories when he re-wrote them in splendid verse.

The story of the Hare and…

The Cyprus Red Cross was founded in 1950 as a branch of the British Red Cross. From the start the Society was set up on a pan-Cyprian basis with its headquarters at Nicosia. Branches were also established in all the major towns.In 1957, the…

Τhe Prince of Venice is the Cypriot folk tale of the King of Pafos and his three daughters. It is a tale where love, jealousy, evil intentions, magic, determination, repentance and courage unfold to bring a happy ending to the King’s youngest…

It is the passion of Hambis, the well known Cypriot engraver from the occupied village of Kontea, to spin the tales of the village, its sorrows, its beauty and its joys just like a weaver. He never drops a stitch and his ink is transformed into a…

All the illustrated stamps are from the collection of original watercolors of Cypriot flora by E.Megaw and D. Meilke, which they donated to the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. The six stamps depicted in this issue form part of the forty donated…

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…

Choir 'Voice of Kyrenia' during a municipality event in 2011.