The Maronites of Cyprus

THE MARONITES OF CYPRUS 25 Maronite cultural and social clubs and associations: • 99th Maronite Scouts Group (1959). • Karpasha Holy Cross Youth Club (1972). • Kato Polemidhia Maronite Youth Centre (1984). • Catholic Maronite Youth of Cyprus (1988). • Association of Maronite University Graduates in Cyprus (1996). • Maronite Community Choir (1997). • “Kermia Ztite” Cultural Group (2006). • Association of Displaced Persons from Ayia Marina “The Return” (2006). • “Χki Fi Sanna” (Speak in Our Language) Club (2007). • “Kormakitis Trust” Heritage Club (2007). • Musical Group of the Maronites of Cyprus (2007). • Women’s Association Movement of Asomatos (2007). • “Archangel Michael” Cultural Group of Asomatos Keryneias (2009). ● The “Saint Anthony” Old People’s Home houses Maronite and Greek-Cypriot elderly. ● The AMKKA Co-Op- erative Savings’ Bank is the only co-operative credit society in walled Nicosia. ● The Folkloric Museum in Kormakitis has been operating since February 2012. The Maronite community established a folkloric museum in occupied Kormakitis in 2012 with donations from the UNDP-PFF and the government of the Republic of Cyprus at the initiative of the Maronite Welfare Association of Cyprus and the “Kormakitis Trust” Heritage Club. In Kormakitis there is also an ecclesiastical museum, which was established in 2010 at Saint George cathedral with funding from the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation.