Study to begin for conservation of Famagusta’s St George of the Greeks church

A study is to begin regarding the conservation of the St George of the Greeks church in Famagusta, bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris said.

The church dates back to the 14th century and was built immediately to the west of a much earlier church which was also dedicated to St George, with Famagusta’s Greek Orthodox community of the day said to have wished to build a cathedral to rival the grandeur of the town’s Latin St Nicholas cathedral – now the Lala Mustafa Pasha mosque.