Basic HTML Version
208.
RETURN OF CHURCHES, CHAPELS, GRANTS, &c.
Denomination
Estimated total
namber of
followers.
Number of
Churches
or Chapels.
Gross amount
of Assistance
to denomination
or mission from
Public Funds, if any.
Remarks.
Autocephalous
Chnrch of
Cypni6
Christian Orthodox
Moslems
300,700
Karotiites
Latins
66,120
1,890
680
Armenian
Gregorians
Ohorch of England
Presbyterians
Other Protestants
Jews
Unclassified
3,660
600
150
190
70
660 Churches
' 11 Ccenobitical
Monasteries
84 non-Ccenobitical
Monasteries*
222 Mosques
10 Tekyes or
Convents of
Dervishes
3 Seminaries
11 Churches
4 Monasteries
3 Churches
6 Chapels
3 Convents
3 Monasteries
2 Churches
1 Chapel
1 Monastery
4 Churches
2 Chnrch Rooms
n » I'tlky-i, • '-' r.
1 Church
I Church B o o m
J. \>
..'
I
:..~i
•
This is the Church of the Island, the
second in Antiquity of Christian
Churches.
. "Mostly without resident priests. Served
' once a year from tbe adjacent village.
The only other significant religion
community.
Under the Archbishop of Syria.
Under the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Under the Armenian Patriarch (" Catho-
licos") of Cilicia.
Under the Bishop-in-Jerusalem. Situated
at the district towns, for the official
community, etc.
*-•
••
*
-•*}
T h e Beformed Presbyterians at Larnaca
and Nicosia.
No - places of worship; attend either
Church of England or Presbyterian.
Mostly at Chomlekji and Kouklia.
80
N O T E . — This Island is not adapted for missionary work as usually understood and in that sense there is practically
none, nor does any denomination receive State aid.
C A L E N D A R .
The undermentioned Caleudar Years coint-ieuced at the dates of the Gregorian Year 1936 specified below :—
1. Mohammedan Ecclesiastical, the Hejira, 1356 :—15th April, 19S7.
2. Tnrkiah Financial, 1353 :— 14th March, 1937.
#
3. Julian or "Old Style," 1937 : — U t h January, 1937.*
4. Armenian Ecclesiastical, 1387 :—24th August, 1937.
5. Armenian National, 4430 :—16th August, 1937.
* N O T E . — The Angora Government has adopted the Western N e w Year's Day aud
also adopted tbe " N e w Style " except as regards Easter and the " roovs
the Greek-Orthodox Church bat
able feasts " dependent on it.