Cyprus, Nicosia: The Cathedral of Ayia Sophia Mosque (Selimiye Mosque)

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/0434.1808
Level Item
Description Glass negative, full plate size, a copy negative. In addition to the SPHS Catalogue number, the number 108 written on the negative.
Dimensions 21.5 x 16 cm
Place Selimiye Mosque
Nicosia
Dates 1888
Donor/Creator Macmillan, Mr Malcolm
Dyer, Mr Louis
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyprus: The Visconta. St. Sophia, the cathedral mosque of Nicosia".
Notes Date of the image is probably prior to 1890, probably to 1888 when the donors were thought to be in Cyprus with E.A. Gardner (see JHS 9: 170). Photographs by Dyer and Macmillan were submitted to the Hellenic Society's collections and catalogued, see JHS 11 (1890) p. xxxviii.
Related records [BRF/02/07/04/001], Hagia Sophia Cathedral, 1888
Reference 1904 JHS 24: Catalogue of Slides. xcii.SPHS 1808. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 23.SPHS 1808. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 77.SPHS 1808. Link to article