Field photograph·C10049

Ruins at Famagusta

Ruined church walls with pointed window openings among palm trees and low houses at Famagusta, with the sea beyond.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C10049. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Two ruined stone church buildings stand on the left and right of the view, with empty window openings and broken walls. Between them are low flat-roofed houses, palm trees and dense bushes, and dry grass fills the foreground. A pale strip of sea lies beyond the buildings under a bare, pale sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Famagusta, ruins.

Swedish, as on the record

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