Restoration work on Apostolos Andreas monastery in Karpaz and conservation work on Othello tower in Famagusta is scheduled to begin in the next two months, Ali Tuncay from heritage technical committee announced.
Both populations’ technical committee was formed in 2008 and has coordinated the project to restore the Karpaz monastery for the past year. Tuncay said that both sides had been the focus of the committee in recent months.
Delays to repair to the dilapidated monastery occurred when the “Church of Cyprus” insisted that a UN document showed that the monastery belongs to the church. But eventually gave Archbishop Chrysostomos the go ahead and agreed that work could begin, when the UN, at the end of January 2013, formulated a proposal for the project to proceed on a “multi-donor partnership” and allow more than one donor to finance the project. UNDP has signed a separate protocol agreement with the “Church of Cyprus” and Turkish Cypriot EVKAF’s religious foundation Evka.
“Restoration of Apostolos Andreas monastery’s main building was erected in 1800, and conservation work on Othello’s Tower, built in the 1300s are the two projects that our committee is focusing on right now,” said Tuncay.
