The construction machinery entered the building location to start realizing of the plan of Archbishop Chrysostomos. It was he pointing at his political opposers with the words “cry-babies”.
The future construction will be named after Saint Varnavas who has created the Cyprus Church. Archbishop Chrysostomos decided it is reasonable because of inability of church members to use the old Saint John temple.
The full project involves the availability of parking and a big square. All these can take at €4m.
Following to the current archbishop all former archbishops will be reintered under the altar of the future cathedral. And near them builders will make a crypt. All of churches’ relics will be put into the crypt.
The municipality’s aesthetics committee declined the first project positing constructing the top point of the cathedral at a height of 26 m. That was a reason of creating a new corrected project with 22-metre height. The new one is designed for 800 parishioners. The project also includes 150 parking lots.
There were many protesters who insisted on a scraping to the project before. They all were stating the future church would complicate traffic and create additional problems for the bearing layer of soil. Besides the cathedral can wreck a long-standing architecture view of all historical part of the town.
Instead of this, the current archbishop said it would be a new pearl of Nicosia’s architecture. He also believes no child-protestor knows all the state of affairs in building and nature specifics better than he or architectures do. On the basis of his words people was gathered and sent to the protest place by “a few self-appointed middlemen”.
The workers stumble crossed a few discoveries during preparing works. Some of those archeological discoveries cannot be replaced and will stay where they are as a part of the site.
There are not needed additional building materials and the whole process should last not more than 24 months.