77 churches converted into mosques, 133 places of worship and monasteries desecrated, 18 churches converted into warehouses, barracks and military hospitals, 1 into a hotel and art school. This is shown by a photographic exhibition set up by the Museum of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos in the archbishopric of Nicosia which was reached today by the "ecumenical" pilgrimage organised by Brevivet of Brescia, a group of 21 journalists and diocesan delegates for ecumenism and the pastoral of tourism. The exhibition, about "Christian monuments in the occupied Turkish Cyprus Aspects and facts of an endless destruction", shows a number of photographs which illustrate the consequences of the Turkish invasion of 1974 on the Cypriot heritage and cultural identity in the occupied territories in the north of the island. According to Charalampos Chotzakoglou, curator of the exhibition, "the Christian churches are collapsing. Those that have not been converted into mosques are used by the army or for other purposes until they become hen houses or stables". (continued)
