Conservation of Orounta mosque completed

The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage (TCCH) announced the completion of conservation works at Orounta mosque, funded by the EU and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The mosque in Orounta village, Nicosia, is dated among various building phases between the 19th and 20th centuries. Its complex consists of three buildings: the mosque, a secondary building, and the school building. Archival sources document that in 1888, the old mosque was in a heavily deteriorated state and needed urgent repair. The initial...