Photograph·CO 1069-694-23·1900–10
Nicosia: general view with Mosque of St Sophia
Description
Open, flat ground with scattered low scrub fills the foreground and a dirt track curves across the middle distance. Beyond, the town of Nicosia forms a low, dense band of buildings with a few slender vertical forms rising above it. A range of pale hills lies behind under a plain, empty sky.
English
A wide view across flat, partly cultivated land towards Nicosia, with a line of low buildings and a few taller forms rising above them below a range of hills. Among them is the Mosque of St Sophia, formerly the cathedral in which the kings of Cyprus were crowned.
The National Archives' description
Nicosia. General View. Mosque of St. Sophia - formerly the Cathedral in which the Kings of Cyprus were crowned.
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