by bill cobbett » Fri May 08, 2009 1:50 pm
"Wonderful news"? = pollocks!
Following our only visit there some three years ago I can confirm that there has been no desecration or destruction at AA other than that caused by the Enforced Isolation.
The fabric of the building is in a poor state of repair but it is limestone and caused by natural weathering. Having said that however, on going inside what strook me was the large number of chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. Most of them, I suspect, had been rescued from other churches and brought there for safekeeping.
As to restoration, this is a matter for its owners and I am sure that the Orthodox Church isn't short a cellini or two when it feels the time and conditions are right. It's got nothing to do with the Occupation Regime and doesn't require USAid.
(Ra Fredoulla, aman se tho, tha se baptiso, mesto ayion nero, me doh sabunee, kai doh "Vim")