Melbourne’s Cypriots will be gathering on Sunday 7 April for an event honouring the young EOKA freedom fighters who paved the way to Cypriot independence.
Commemorations, organised by SEKA Victoria together with the Cyprus Community of Apostolos Andrea Sunshine will be held at Saint Andrews Church, 10 St Andrews Street Sunshine.
The line-up of events starts at 9am with a memorial service paying tribute to the fallen heroes of the 1955-59 struggle.
Men and women in the prime of their youth had joined the Cypriot Liberation struggle against British Colonialism on April 1, 1955.
It was the start of a battle eventually opening the road to the declaration of Cyprus as an Independent Republic.
At the conclusion of the memorial, a wreath laying ceremony is scheduled for 10.30am at the monument outside the church, followed by a tea gathering at the church hall hosted by the Cyprus Community of Apostolos Andreas Sunshine.
The church hall event, after the divine liturgy and the trisagio in front of the monument typically concludes with the National Anthems of Greece and Australia.
Representatives of Victorian Cypriot and Greek organisations are expected to be in attendance alongside community members, students and politicians.