Field photograph·JL355
Street in Nicosia, with the former Bandabulya market
Description
A crowded market lane in Nicosia, lined on both sides by open-fronted stalls with timber posts and sloping roofs. Dozens of men in caps and hats and women in headscarves walk, stand and carry wicker baskets, with birdcages hung on a whitewashed wall at right. Beyond the rooftops a tall minaret and a stone building rise against a pale sky.
Other scans of this record (2)
- Description, scan 2
- A dense crowd fills a street lined with covered wooden stalls on posts, with men in caps and hats and women in headscarves moving between them. Several people carry baskets, and goods are laid out on a stall counter at the right. Behind the low roofs a tall minaret rises against a pale sky, with a plastered building in front of it.
- Description, scan 3
- A busy street of covered market stalls seen down a central lane, with a dense crowd of men in caps, hats and dark coats and women in headscarves. Some carry baskets or bundles, and wooden posts with corrugated awnings shelter stalls holding baskets and produce on the right. A tall minaret and plastered houses rise in the hazy background.
English, translated from the original record
Street in Nicosia, Cyprus. The photograph was taken from the previous Bandabulya market in Nicosia, located at the intersection of the most important retail streets (Ermou, Goldsmiths', and Arasta). It was then demolished and a new building (Bandabuliya) was built in 1932; the project was by architect Odesseas Tsagkarides. In the background the Selimiye Mosque, historically known as Cathedral of Saint Sophia, is visible.