We shall start with a couple of drone shots giving you views of the whole project. With the exception of a few areas of tiling on the roof that need to be finished, it looks like it is finished.

You can certainly appreciate the exterior now and it looks lovely. We shall have a walk round to get a closer look. In the far corner you can see the Monument to the Armenian Genocide. That's a good place to start.

There will be some more drone pictures at the end of the article. For now though we shall be able to get a better look by walking. This is the corner by the traffic lights next to the monument.

I have to confess that before coming to Cyprus I had never heard of the Armenian Genocide. Mind you, I didn't really study History at school after the age of 12, and before that they mainly dealt with ancient events.

Fortunately these days it is easy to get information, so a quick query reveals the following sad information:

The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass killing and deportation of Armenians by the Ottoman government during World War I, beginning in spring 1915 and continuing through autumn 1916. On 24 April 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople (modern Istanbul), marking a key starting point of the genocide. Armenians were subsequently deported from their homes, subjected to mass shootings, death marches, starvation, disease, and exposure, with many being sent toward the Syrian desert. Approximately 1.5 million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire in 1915; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates that at least 664,000 and possibly up to 1.2 million Armenians were killed, including men, women, and children.

The events are widely recognized by historians and numerous governments as genocide, though the Turkish government disputes that characterization.