{"id":9295,"date":"2024-04-23T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2024-04-23T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T08:00:52","slug":"renovations-begin-on-alektora-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=9295","title":{"rendered":"Renovations begin on Alektora mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/renovations-begin-on-alektora-mosque.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Renovations work began on Monday at the abandoned mosque in the village of Alektora<\/strong>, in the Limassol district.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-1827021346\">\n<div id=\"cypru-1298595745\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-6077272309871-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The work\u2019s commencement was announced by the bicommunal Technical committee on cultural heritage\u2019s Turkish Cypriot co-chairman Ali Tuncay, and is being carried out with the technical support of the United Nations Development Programme and European Union funding.<br \/>\nAlektora, also known in Turkish as Gokagac, was <strong>almost exclusively inhabited by Turkish Cypriots <\/strong>until the outbreak of intercommunal violence in the 1960s.<br \/>\nThe village\u2019s earliest mosque had been constructed in 1849 but had fallen into disrepair by the end of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century.<br \/>\nThe current mosque was completed in 1931 and was most recently worked on in 2004 by the Limassol district authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renovations work began on Monday at the abandoned mosque in the village of Alektora in the Limassol district. 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