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Photograph·pht_00697·c.1918

View of Nicosia from St. Sofia Mosque

View of Nicosia from St. Sofia Mosque
Photograph: J.P. Foscolo, c.1918. pht_00697. "View of Nicosia from St. Sofia Mosque". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

English, as on the record

Black and white photographic postcard of Nicosia viewed from the top of Selimiye Mosque with a good view of the flying buttresses along it's north wall

Inscription, as transcribed by CVAR

Printed along bottom: View of Nicosia from St. Sophia Mosque. Cyprus.

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