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Archbishop Sofronios III (Αρχιεπίσκοπος Σωφρόνιος Γ’) bust

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Artist: Phylactis Ierides

Location: Foini. Limassol district

Material: Copper

Dimensions: 144 cm (+ 30 cm step) x 76 cm x 62 cm

Category: Cypriot Church

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the memorial was taken by an ad hoc committee. The bust was completed in 2000.

Selected sources:
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/19, Meeting Minutes October 26, 1999.

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Panayiotis Toumazos (Παναγιώτης Τουμάζος) bust

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Artist: Philippos Yiapanis & Phylactis Ierides

Location: “Panayiotis Toumazos” union premises, Episkopi. Limassol district 

Dimensions: 135 cm x 104 cm

Category: EOKA 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the bust was taken by the “Panayiotis Toumazos” union. It was placed in 1997.

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Panayiotis Katsidiaris (Παναγιώτης Κατσιδιάρης) bust

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Artist: Phylactis Ierides 

Location: Entrance of Fterifoudi village, coming from Aska. Nicosia district

Material: Stone and brass

Dimensions: 138 cm x 74~152 cm x 45 cm

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the bust was taken in 2001 by Fterikoudi Community Committee and Fterikoudi expatriates’ union.

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Andreas G. Neokleous (Ανδρέας Γ. Νεοκλέους) statue

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Ανδριάντας Ανδρέα Γ. Νεοκλέους (7)n

Artist: Phylactis Ierides 

Place: Agioi Vavatsinias village entrance. Larnaka district.

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The statue was commissioned in 2008 and the unveiling took place on July 26th 2009. Four verses of a Kostis Palamas’ poem are noted on the pedestal: 

“Breaths wondering in the afterlife, remains even though you exist in a deep sleep, I share my glory with you, blessed may you be” (Πνοές κι αν πλανάσθε σ’άλλη ζωή, λείψανα κι αν κοιμάσθε, σας λειτουργώ τη δόξα μου, μακαρισμένοι νάστε).

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Memorial to the Marathounta dead and missing

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Μνημείο πεσόντων και αγνοουμένων - προτομή Γιαννάκη Σιαμμά (6)n Μνημείο πεσόντων και αγνοουμένων - προτομή Γιαννάκη Σιαμμά (7)n

Μνημείο πεσόντων και αγνοουμένων - προτομή Γιαννάκη Σιαμμά (4)n

Artist: Phylactis Ierides 

Location: Agios Georgios church yard. Pafos district.

Dimensions: 174 cm x 66 cm x 65 cm

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The memorial was commissioned by the Marathounta Community. The bust is dedicated to Yiannis Siammas (Γιάννης Σιαμμάς) and the pedestal to the listed as missing Charalambos Fteroudi (Χαράλαμπος Φτερούδη). Under his name is noted a line of Giorgos Seferis (the 1963 literature Nobel winner Greek poet) “Cyprus Salamina” poem, written in 1953. On the third stele is noted a verse of Yiannis Ritsos “Farewell”(Apoheretismos) poem. The unveiling took place on August 14th 2011.

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Memorial to the EOKA 1955-59 heroes

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Artists:  Christos Symeonidis Chrisimos, Phylactis Ierides,

Philippos Yiapanis 

Location: On the Avgorou-Lioperiou road. Ammochostos district.

Dimensions: The memorial occupies an area of 14,500 m.sq.

Category: EOKA 1955-59

Photography: Vicky Karaiskou

The wish to honour the Avgorou dead fighters goes back to 1962 when the first actions to gather the necessary funds took place. More than twenty years afterwards, in March 1985, the EOKA 1955-59 Avgorou members’ decision to construct a memorial materialized.

The intention of the initiative was to remind the origins, symbolize the main principles of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle, and commemorate Modestos Panteli, the first EOKA fighter who died on April 1st 1955.

For that reason the area where the memorial is situated today was symbolically chosen, being the exact place of his death. The memorial honors the memory of all Avgorou and the nearby Liopetri village EOKA’s dead fighters and aspired to be the reference point for the whole of Cyprus during the annual commemorations on April 1st.

The funding of this extensive project was secured mainly by the EOKA 1955-59 members, and the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 Struggle (SIMAE). Other state and private entities also made contributions.

A procession path flanked with a row of cypress trees links the ancient Greek Corinthian style entrance with the Mycenaean-like tomb. The path opens up to an ancient Greek theater construction. The distance between the theater’s semicircular auditorium and the tomb is flanked with dark stone panels where the names of the dead appear.

Inside the tomb, 26 portraits in relief were made by the three sculptors. Because of the limited budget, black and white photographs of the deceased substituted part of the total of 108 portraits initially planned to cover the walls.

Following the ancient Greek tradition, where theaters were adjacent to temples and in particular to Dionysus temple in order to underline the origins and the higher purpose of the theater culture, at Avgorou village, the nearby chapel was erected to remind the close relation between religion and motherland in modern Cyprus.

The unveiling of the monument took place on October 18th 2002.

Selected sources:
~ Σημερινή (Simerini), March 13, 1985, p. 3.
~ Ελευθερία (Eleftheria), December 16, 1962, p. 8.
~ Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), October 18, 2002, p. 20.
~ Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), October 20, 2002, p. 32.
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/2.
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/12, Meetings Minutes, September 13, 1994; November 10, 1994.
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/18, document December 2, 1998.
~ Ιστορικό Αρχείο ΣΙΜΑΕ (Historical Archive of the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle), 17.2009.10, Meeting Minutes April 26, 2002.

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