Lapithiou Mosque

The mosque in Asprogeia is located in a westerly direction a little outside the village proper. Despite a larger number of Muslim inhabitants, the mosque in the village was built quite late.

It is very likely that there was already a mosque in the village at the beginning of the 20th century. The first reports of repairs date back to 1927. In the 1930s, the mosque was closed for a while because there was no imam in the village. Further repairs took place in 1938. The severe Paphos earthquake of 1953 also damaged the mosque of Choulou so badly that it had to be demolished. the structure found today was built in the years between 1954 and 1956; very probably according to a design by the Greek Cypriot architect Th. Photiadis, who had designed several mosques in a similar style in the area.

The mosque is located in the eastern part of the original and extensive settlement area. It is known that the present mosque had a predecessor building which was in very poor condition in 1904. It is not known whether the new building was erected on the same site as the old mosque. The new building was completed between 1905 and 1907. According to Bağişkan, the enormous cost of repairing the damage caused by the severe earthquake of 1953 suggests that the building had to be completely rebuilt.