My name is Tristan Foreman and I am entering my senior year at MSU Denver. I am majoring in history with a minor in religious studies and I hope to use our time in Cyprus to learn about the religious history of the island while also hopefully gaining an appreciation for archeological work as well. The religious history of Cyprus is widely complex with numerous sites being converted throughout history and it is evident that many of the remaining orthodox/catholic churches on the island had at one point been converted to mosques and even after the split of Cyprus in 1974 a number of historical mosques are still visible in places such as Larnaca. I was very excited to visit the Church of Saint Lazarus on the 4th and I hope to visit similar influential mosques and churches in both Larnaca and Nicosia. I‘m also both grateful and excited to get experience in the field of archeology and I hope to learn more about the process of excavating these sites and sites like this around the world.