Exhibit of the Month by the Cyprus Folk Art Museum

Fri Aug 08, 2008 to
Thu Aug 14, 2008

09:30 to 16:00

Location

Cyprus Folk Art Museum
Archbishop Kyprianos Square
Next to St John Cathedral
Nicosia, Nicosia 1016

Society of Cypriot Studies
Phone: 22432578

Description

The Museum of Folk Art exhibits the only oblation which has survived from the Church of Chrysosotiros in Akanthou in the occupied area of Cyprus, which has become a mosque after the Turkish invasion of 1974. The oblation is a wax figure of a woman 73cm tall.