List of mosques in the Famagusta district
The list of mosques in the Famagusta district includes the Muslim houses of worship in the Famagusta district in eastern Cyprus that were built before 1974.
image | Name of the original church | Place (location) | Establishment | today's name, remarks |
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Agios Georgios | Gypsou | 16th Century | Bell tower from 1925, renovated in 1973 | |
Agios Epiphanios | Milia | 1902-1906 | ||
Panagia Chrysospelaiotissa | Famagusta | 1955-1960 | ||
Agios Nikolaos | Famagusta | 14th Century | Gothic cathedral, today Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque | |
Agios Petros & Pavlos | Famagusta | 14./15. century | In 1600 rededicated to a mosque, in the courtyard an Ottoman tomb | |
Timios Stavros | Famagusta | 14th Century | small mosque, good condition | |
Agios Georgios | Agios Georgios | 19th century, early | ||
Sotiros | Lefkonoiko | unknown | ||
Agios Loukas | Spathariko | middle Ages | ||
Agios Basileios | Vasili | Latin (?) | on the Karpas, temporarily a mosque, now empty | |
Agios Georgios | Vathylakas | Latin | temporarily mosque, empty | |
Panagia | Neta | unknown | Cemetery, mosque | |
Agia Aikaterini | Gerani | 1950, after (?) | Karpas, mosque | |
Archangelos Mikhail | Patriki / Karpasia | 1868 | Women's gallery | |
Agios Iliad | Agios Ilias / Karpasia | 1922 | At times mosque, empty, doors and window glass are missing | |
Agios Georgios | Flamoudi | 1894 (?) | ||
Agios Loukas | Eptakomi / Karpasia | 1951 (?) | Karpas | |
Agios Demetrios | Leonarisso / Karpasia | unknown | temporarily mosque, empty | |
Archangelus | Koma tou Gialou / Karpasia | 1859 (?) | temporarily mosque, empty | |
Agios Nikolaos | Agios Nikolaos | unknown | ||
Panagia Eleousas | Trypimeni | 1907 | ||
Agia Marina | Akanthou | unknown | ||
Metamorfosis Sotiros | Akanthou | unknown | well preserved | |
Agios Polychronios | Melanarga / Karpasia | unknown | Mosque, converted between 2001 and 2007, well preserved | |
Agia Paraskevi | Agkastina | 19th century, late | ||
Agios Loukas | Mousoulita | 20th century, early | ||
Agios Nikolaos | Limnia | 1863 (?) | ||
Agios Mamas | Gaidouras | 1900, around | ||
Timios Stavros? | Pigi / Peristerona | unknown | ||
Agios Georgios | Prastio | 1823 (?) | ||
Timios Prodromos | Assia | unknown | even before 1974 mosque, Mithrab | |
Agios Georgios | Assia | unknown | ||
Panagia Theotokos | Lysi | 1889 (?) |
literature
- Ceyda Alçıcıoğlu: Churches Converted to Mosques and Their Adaptive Re-Uses , Diss., University of Oxford 2014. ( academia.edu )
Web links
- Famagusta District , Greek Cypriot & Turkish Cypriot Religious Buildings Built before 1974
Remarks
- ↑ Agia Aikaterini . Accessed June 21, 2020. (English)
- ↑ Samuel Andrew Hardy: Interrogating Archaeological Ethics in Conflict Zones: Cultural Heritage Work in Cyprus , Diss., University of Sussex, 2010, p. 96 f ( online , PDF; 24.3 MB).