Field photograph·C09745

Famagusta ruins and palm trees

Ruins and palm trees at Famagusta, with a broken stone arcade behind palms and a rubble wall in the foreground. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C09745. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Several palm trees stand in front of a ruined stone wall with arched openings in the middle distance, and a low building with a flat roof and a wooden door stands at the right. In the foreground, a heap of loose stones and rubble runs across bare, stony ground with scattered scrub.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Ruins and palm trees at Famagusta.

Swedish, as on the record

Famagusta, ruiner och palmer. Byggnaden till väster är antagligen Lala Mustafa Pasha Moskén (Turkish: Lala Mustafa Paşa Camii), ursprungligen Saint Nicholas katedralen.