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RETURN OF CHURCHES. CHAPELS, GRANTS, Ac.
Denomination
Tit:mated Total
number..:
followers.
Number of
Churches
or Chapels.
Gross amount
of Assistance
tu denomination
or mission from
' Public Funds, if any.
Remark**.
~ Autocephalous
Church of
Cyprus
Greek-Orthodox
Moslem
Maroi.ites
Latin Catholics
Armenian
(j regoriau
245,000
659 Churches
11 Ccenobitical
Monasteries
84 non-Ccenobitical
Monasteries
61,-100
202 Mosques
15 Tekyes or
Convents of
Dervishes
8 Seminaries
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8 Clmrches
-1 Mo..;isieries
1,'.)(»'.) | 3 Churches
2 Convents
: '•'> .Monasteries
1.20-> 2 Ciinrches
'• 1 Monastery
This is the Church of the Island, the
second in Antiquity of Christian
Churches.
The only other significant Religions
Community.
Under the Archbishop of Syria.
Under the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Under the Armenian Patriarch of Con–
stantinople.
Church of Ensrland
Other Protestants
•lews
-1.5n
!•.»'.)
2.00
200
3 Chnrches
2 Church Rooms
1 Church
1 Church Room
1 Synairo'riie
1 Room
i Under the Bishop-in-Jerusalem. At
• the District Towns, for the Official
: Community, etc.
I The Reformed Presbyterians at Larnaca
iind Nicosia.
• No places of worship, attend either
Church of England or Presbyterian.
A settlement at Margo and a few
ut Cliotnlekji und Kontea.
N O T E . — This Island is not adapted for Missionary W o r k as usually understood aud in that sense there is practically
none, nor does anv Denomination receive State Aid.
C A L E N D A R .
Tbe undermentioned Calendar Years commence at the dates specified in the Gregorian Year 1925
1. Ottoman Ecclesiastical, the Hejira, 1345 begins 2nd July, 1926.
2. Ottoman Financial, 1343 begins U t h March, 1927.•
3. Julian or "Old Style," 192(1 begins U t h January, 1927.
4. Armenian Ecclesiastical, 1377 begins 24th August, 1927.
5. Armenian National, 4420 begins 16th August, 1927.
• N O T : : . — A- shown in the new Turkish Calendars the Angora Government bas adopted the Western N e w Year's Daj
and the Greek-Orthodox Church has also adopted the " N e w Style " except as regards Easter.