A view of a mosque in Cyprus, located near the great church. The building was constructed during the Ottoman period, directly beside the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, which was also converted into a mosque. In front of the mosque stand two prominent columns brought from the ancient city of Salamis. They evoke the region\u2019s illustrious distant past while also recalling the more recent Venetian period, which ended with the Ottoman siege of the city. In the foreground, set among rich vegetation, an ancient sarcophagus is visible along with a group of women\u2014Turkish women and a Greek woman with her child.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A view of a mosque in Cyprus, located near the great church. The building was constructed during the Ottoman period, directly beside the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, which was also converted into a mosque. In front of the mosque stand two prominent columns brought from the ancient city of Salamis. They evoke the region\u2019s illustrious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"artwork_location":[69],"artwork_period":[52],"collection-technique":[161],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artworks","artwork_location-europe","artwork_period-17th-century","collection-technique-etching"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n