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Field photograph·C10039

Ruins at Famagusta

Ruins at Famagusta: roofless stone walls with pointed windows rising among palm trees and scrub.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C10039. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Roofless stone walls of a large building with tall pointed windows, buttresses and a slender pinnacle stand in the centre. A second ruined wall with arched openings stands to the left. Tall palm trees and low shrubs grow across the open, grassy ground in front of the ruins.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Famagusta, ruins.

Swedish, as on the record

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