Video Guide for Turkish Mosque - Episkopi

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External footage only of a Turkish Mosque, Episkopi, which is still today kept and maintained, although not in use, out of simple religious and cultural tolerance to the Turkish Moslems. It fell to disuse and was abandoned after the Turkish invasion of 1974.

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Turkish Mosque Travel Video - Audio Transcript

Turkish Mosque

This building in the quiet little village of Episkopi reveals much about the Cypriot view of religious and cultural tolerance.

The fact that it still stands when it is not in use and has not been since the Turkish invasion of the northern part in 1974 illustrates a more neighbourly approach to maintaining religious buildings than the other way round.

In the Turkish dominated north it has been recorded that most of the Greek-Cypriot churches were pulled down or transformed rather than kept intact.

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