Kormakitis / Koruçam - Maronite Church in the center
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Of course, we were excited to see where the invitation to North Cyprus was leading us to because never before we had heard of a village called Koruçam or Kormacit.
Only one thing from the emails of Houssem was clear: the remaining 195 residents had all decided to implement sustainable tourism and want to be a genuine eco village, which opens up to tourism from now on. But more on that topic later.
Starting point of the Besparmak long-distance hiking trail
Kormakitis is considered to be the only remaining center of a countable number of inhabitants of Cypriot Maronite Church; here also is one of the four Maronite churches of Cyprus. A part of the population speaks Cypriot Arabic. So it is not surprising that even the service in the church is designed multilingual.
Their name goes back to the holy Maron, who lived as a monk at the lower Orontes (now Syria).
The Maronite Church is united with Christian Church of Rome, which recognizes the Roman Pope as head too. The Maronites are one of the largest and oldest religious communities in Lebanon; their church language is a western-Syrian language.
Destruction of the Monastery of St. Maroun
After the destruction of the monastery of St. Maroun by Syrian Muslims in the 10th century, they fled under the leadership of Patriarch John Maroun I. to Lebanon where the Maronite Christianity spread also among the residential Greek, Phoenician and Arab population. The mountains of Mount Lebanon between Tripoli and Beirut and some towns along the Mediterranean coast represents the only larger contiguous area in the Arab world in which an almost exclusively Christian population could still survive.
History of the Mennonite Community
From the history of the Maronite community and its culture also reflects a small but very interesting museum in reflecting the living tradition of the local population. So it is not surprising when one meets with a major religious festival in the resort once a year, which also includes international guests and thus overpopulate the village: our entry photo from the museum shows an event years ago.
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By camper or caravan from Tasucu to Northern Cyprus
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