#mosque

The government on Thursday said it was committed to respecting the religious heritage of “our Turkish Cypriot compatriots” following reports that a mosque in Limassol had been defaced with racist ...

Renovations work began on Monday at the abandoned mosque in the village of Alektora, in the Limassol district. The work’s commencement was announced by the bicommunal Technical committee on ...

The restoration of the Hamidiye mosque will send a “tangible and positive message”, the United Nations’ senior political affairs officer on Cyprus, Philippe Baudin said on Tuesday. He said the ...

Restoration of the Hamidiye mosque in Lefkara has been completed, with a handover ceremony having taken place on Tuesday. The restoration works were carried out with funding from the European ...

Cyprus’ new biggest mosque is to be the subject of a court case, it emerged on Wednesday. It is due to be opened officially on Thursday. The mosque, named as ...

A mosque set to hold up to 10,000 people will open in the north next year, on the Near East University campus, it emerged on Monday. Turkish Cypriot press reports carried ...

A new mosque is set to be built in Kioneli, after an agreement was signed on Thursday between the town’s mayor Huseyin Amcaoglu, Foundations administration (Evkaf) chairman Ibrahim Benter, ...

Cultural heritage maintenance promotes unity between the two communities in Cyprus, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said during an event on Friday marking the completion of the preservation works of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu both condemned the attack on the Koprulu Haci Ibrahim Aga Mosque in Limassol on Saturday. Tatar described ...

Those who seek to create tension and a negative climate do not reflect the desire of the overwhelming majority of Greek and Turkish Cypriots to reunite the island, President Nikos ...

Arsonists targeted a Limassol mosque early on Saturday, only hours after Muslims had gathered there to pray. Police said an unknown person approached the Jedit Mosque located in the old ...

Efforts to restore the Turkish Cypriot primary school and mosque in the village of Kokkina have been completed, the Turkish Cypriot foundations administration (Evkaf) and the ‘TRNC Security forces command’ ...

Access to religious sites should continue to be discussed by officials on both sides of the divide, a US state department report on the island said on Tuesday. It underlined ...

The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage in Cyprus has completed the renovation works on the mosque in the village of Maroni, in the district of Larnaca, a project which Jakhongir ...

Following the uproar caused by his misogynistic statements regarding the role of women in modern society the ‘head of religious affairs’ in the north Ahmet Unsal said that the controversial ...

Islamic organisations are attempting to proselytise in north seeking the Islamification of the Turkish Cypriot community, reports said on Wednesday, pointing to some organisations that have been approaching minors to ...

Oman will donate €1 million to the renovation works at the Kebir mosque in Limassol, the public works department said on Tuesday. According to the department, the renovations will cost approximately €1,088,755 ...

Conservation works on a mosque in Orounda have been completed by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, the committee announced on Wednesday. The works were completed through a project funded ...

Contracts have been signed to renovate four more churches and three mosques across the divided island, the bicommunal technical cultural heritage committee announced on Thursday. The works are due to ...

Children in the north are being enticed to pray at the mosque twice a day as part of a religious summer school with the promise of a free bicycle, it ...

The government on Thursday strongly condemned the actions of “some brainless people” who smeared the mosque in Episkopi with ‘patriotic’ graffiti referring to the 1821 revolution, and drawings of Greek flags. ...

The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage announced on Friday the completion of conservation works on important monuments and announced that it plans on working on several mosques across the island. ...

Larnaca Municipality saw 2020 revenue drop by €5.5m because of the coronavirus pandemic, mayor Andreas Vyras told the Cyprus News Agency on Tuesday. The municipality had budgeted for revenue of €23.8m ...