Field photograph·C09746

Famagusta: probably Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque (Saint Nicholas Cathedral)

Stone façade of the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, Famagusta, with a slender minaret, seen across an open square — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C09746. Public domain (CC0).

Description

The tall stone façade has pointed-arched windows, a large rose window at its centre and a slender tower with a pointed cap on the left. In the foreground a low whitewashed building with a tiled roof faces a dusty open square, where an old lorry with a loaded back stands at the left edge. Two men walk across the square, and a third person is partly visible at the bottom left.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Famagusta, probably Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, originally Saint Nicholas Cathedral.

Swedish, as on the record

Famagusta, antagligen Lala Mustafa Pasha Moskén (Turkish: Lala Mustafa Paşa Camii), ursprungligen Saint Nicholas katedralen.