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Notre Dame de Tyre
Notre Dame de Tyre
Notre Dame de Tyre (Şehit Mehmet Hüseyin Sokak, north Nicosia) – this Gothic-style building, located just over the border between the two sides of Nicosia, is a 14th century monastery, which served the Armenian community of Cyprus. In the early 1900s, an elementary school and a monument for the Armenian Genocide were built here. The Turkish occupation of this part of Nicosia in the 1960s resulted in the monastery being vandalized, with illegal Turkish squatters moving in for a period. By 2007, the area was sealed off by the United Nations agency “UNDP” to begin renovations.