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Photograph·pht_RC_100·1954

The tree in front of the Cathedral/Mosque is reputed to be over 600 years old

The tree in front of the Cathedral/Mosque is reputed to be over 600 years old
Photograph: Richard Chamberlain, 1954. pht_RC_100. "The tree in front of the Cathedral/Mosque is reputed to be over 600 years old". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

English, as on the record

Fig tree (ficus sycomorus) in front of the Latin Cathedral of St Nicholas (Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque).

Inscription, as transcribed by CVAR

The tree in front of the Cathedral/Mosque is reputed to be over 600 years old

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