Field photograph·Csn0024
Ayia Sophia quarter, Nicosia
Description
Aerial view over the dense old town of Nicosia, with rows of tiled roofs, courtyards and scattered trees. The large central building has a long pitched roof, many tall arched windows and two slender minarets rising from one end, with a smaller domed structure to the right. Narrow streets and small houses fill the surrounding blocks.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- An aerial view over the rooftops of Nicosia shows a large stone building with a tall slender minaret beside a second, thinner minaret. Dense houses with pitched and flat roofs, courtyards and palm and other trees fill the surrounding streets. A printed caption and credit block runs along the bottom edge of the mounted print.
English, translated from the Swedish record
Ayia Sophia quarter, Nicosia.
Swedish, as on the record
Ayia Sophia-kvarteret. Nicosia
English, as on the record
AYIA SOPHIA QUARTER, NICOSIA "Nicosia was called by the ancients Letra. Under the nine kings it was the residence of one of them, bur under the Lusignans it became the capital, royal and archiepiscopal, of the whole island, and was glorified with palaces, churches and grand buildings." Tommaso Porcacchi-1576 (L´Isole piu famose). Sgt. B. K. Thompson. (Image is from "Cyprus Calendar" which was published at least 1950-1954. Copies can be seen for example on website for The Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR)).