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RETURN OF CHURCHES, CHAPELS, GRANTS, &c.
Denomination
Estimated total
number of
followers.
Number of
Churches
or Chapels.
* i ross amount
of Assistance
to denomination
or mission from
Public Funds, if
anj.
Remarks.
Autocephalous
Chnrch of
Cyprus
Greek-Orthodox
Moslem
245.000
Maronites
Latin Catholics
Armenian
Gresroriau
Church of England
Presbyterians.
Other Protestants
•lews
61.400
1.400
1,000
1.200
450
100
250
200
657 Churches
11 Coenobitical
Monasteries
84 non-Coenobitical
Monasteries
202 Mosques
15 Tekyes or
Convents of
Dervishes
8 Seminaries
8 Churches
4 Monasteries
5 Churches
2 Convents
3 Monasteries
2 Churches
1 Monastery
3 Churches
2 Church R o o m s
1 Church
This is the Church of the Island, the
second in Antiquity of Chriitiin
Churches.
The only other significant Religions
Community.
1 Svnairojnio
* *• o
1 R o o m
U nder the Archbishoo of Svria.
Under the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Under the Armenian Patriarch of Con–
stantinople.
Under the Bishop-in-Jerusalem. At
the District Towns, for the Official
Community, etc
The Reformed Presbyterians at Laraaca.
No places of worship, attend eitbw
Church of England or Presbyterian.
A settlement at Margo and a few
at Chomlekji and Kontea.
N O T E . — This Island is not adapted for Missionary W o r k as usually understood and in that sense there is practically
none, nor does anv Denomination rw-eire State Aid.
C A L E N D A R.
The undermentioned Calendar Years commence at the dates specified in the Gregorian Tear 1923:—
1. Ottoman Ecclesiastical, the Hejira, 1342 begins 15th August. 1923.
-'. Ottoman Financial, 1339 begins lst January, 1923. "
3. Julian or "Old Style," 1923 begins U t h January, 1923.
4. Armenian Ecclesiastical, 1373 begins 24th August, 1923.
5. Armenian National, 4416 begins 21st August, 1923.
N O T E . — As shown in the new Turkish Calendars the Angora Government have adopted the Western N e w Years Day,