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RETURN OF CHURCHES, CHAPELS, GRANTS, &c.
Denomination
Estimated total
number of
followers.
Number of
(Jhnrcbes
or Chapels.
ixross amount
of Assistance
to denomination
or mission from
Public Funds, if any.
Remarks.
Autocephalous
Church of
Cyprus
Greek-Orthodox
Moslem
Miiromtes
R o m a n Catholics
Armenian
Gregorian
Chnrch of Enirland
Presbyterians.
etc.
.Jew-,
.45,000
61,000
.400
1.000
1.200
100
20)
657 Churches
11 Ccenobitical
Monasteries
84 non-Coenobitical
Monasteries
202 Mosqnes
15 Tekyes or
Convents of
Dervishes
8 Seminaries
8 Churches
4 Monasteries
4 Churches
4 Convents
2 Churches
1 Monaster?
Ton
3 Churches
2 Church R o o m s
1 Church
1 Svna-joffiie
This is the Church of the Island, tin
second in Antiquity of Chiitini
Churches.
The only other significant Religion*
Communitv.
Under the Archbishop of Syria.
Under the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Cnder the Armenian Patriarch of Con–
stantinople.
Under the Bishop- in-Jcrusalem at
the District Towns, for the Official
Community.
1
Chiefly attached to the ReformedPresbr
terians at Larnaca.
A settlement at Margo and a few
scattered Communities.
X O T U . — This Lsiand is not adapted for Missionary W o r k as usually understood and in that sense there is practically
none, nor does anv Denomination receive State Aid.
C A I. E X I) A 11.
The undermentioned Calendar Years commence at tlie dates specified in the (Jregorian Year l'J22 :—
1. Ottoman Ecclesiastical the Hejira, 1341 begins 25th August, 1922.
2. Ottoman Financial. Ki-'iS begins 14th March, 1922.
3. Julian or "Old Style." 1922 begins Uth January, 1922.
4. Armenian Ecclesiastical, 1372 begins 24th August, 1922.
5. Armenian National, 4415 begins 21st August, 1922,