Photograph·CO 1069-701-07·1930–39
St Sophia, Nicosia
Description
A large photograph mounted on an album page shows the tall nave of a church. Clustered columns rise on both sides to pointed arches and a ribbed vault, with windows at the far end. A railed platform and a hanging lamp stand in the centre of the empty floor, and patches of light fall across it from the windows.
English
Interior of St Sophia, Nicosia, looking down the nave between tall columns with pointed arches and a ribbed vault. A railed platform and a hanging lamp stand in the central space, and light falls across the floor. With another photograph on the same page.
The National Archives' description
St. Sophia Nicosia.
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