St. Dominic church waiting to be explored in the oldtown of Famagusta Ata Atun SAMTAY Foundation Famagusta, North Cyprus 1 Abstract : The names and identities of the Antique Monuments, with in the oldtown of Famagusta, Cyprus, are determined according to the historical documents or to word of mouth. Most of the times, due to lack of official records or original documents, names originating from the history were adopted. With in the city walls of Oldtown, the name “Ayia Photou Church” is given to two side by side antique monuments, 20 m. apart, which both are now in ruins. These two ruins are situated at the north east sector of the town and are very close to the midpoint of Torrion del Diamante (Karpaz Tabya) and Torrion del Mozzo (Köpük Kulesi). According to my dense researches, the name of the antique monument on the south should be “Ayia Photou Church” and the name of antique monument on the north should be “St. Dominic Church”. In Famagusta, once a very rich town of Medieval, were two Bishoprics and seven churches of different [Christian] religious orders. One of them was the famous “St. Dominic Church” of Franciscan order. In the gravure of Stephan Gibellino, dated 1571 named “Citta di Famagosta ”, the “St. Dominic Church” was clearly drawn with the belfry and back-garden encircled with high walls and marked with No.5 and footnoted as “St. Dominic Church”. It was located on the north east part of the town and close to the midpoint of Torrion del Diamante and Torrion del Mozzo. On the east part of the church, hippodrome “loro di trar al palio” was drawn, which till 1950’s this area served to the similar purpose. Unfortunately the “St. Dominic Church” suddenly disappeared from the papers, documents, registries, records, archives and even from memories after the conquest of the town by the Ottomans on 1571 although the Ottomans tried their best to preserve the antique monuments of Christian religion for almost 300 years and handed over the town to British on 1878 same as it was on 1571.