Working in both the Greek/Southern and the Turkish/Northern parts of Cyprus, Rabia Hamansah conducted ethnographic research on six Orthodox Christian and Muslim religious sites for two years, in order to investigate how formerly shared religious landscape contributed to the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting is practiced by Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and how religious and cultural heritage was destroyed, manipulated, accommodated, and reimagined during periods of conflict. She analyzes the “art of forgetting” as a central device to investigate the selective construction of the past and collective memory, through human interactions with the commemorative religious landscape. Social forgetting is not only a negation, neglect, failure of remembering, or unintended social amnesia; but is a positive process through which a certain kind of knowledge of the past is produced deliberately and actively.