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N°12655
Element Byzantine chant (Cyprus)
Inscribed in 2019 (14.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Title EN: Cantors lead the procession around the church of Saint John’s Cathedral in Nicosia, celebrating The Sunday of Orthodoxy (first Sunday of Great Lent). The Service commemorates the restoration of icons and their veneration by the decision of the Seventh Ecumenical Council in AD 787
Photograph: Mediazone/A.Polyniki
© Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO, 2018