Arabahmet Mosque, Ottoman mosque in western Nicosia, Cyprus.
The Arabahmet Mosque is a religious building in Nicosia designed in Ottoman style. The structure features a large central dome surrounded by smaller domes positioned at the entrance and around the corners.
The building was constructed in the late 16th century and replaced an earlier religious structure that stood on the same ground. Traces of the previous construction remain visible at the site.
The mosque sits within the Arabahmet quarter, characterized by narrow streets and traditional residential buildings that form a tight-knit neighborhood. It serves as a central place for prayer and community gathering among local residents.
The mosque stands in the Arabahmet quarter of North Nicosia, west of the city centre, and is an active place of worship, so dress modestly and time a visit outside prayer. The garden holds the gravestones and inscribed fragments; the Frankish-period tombstones were moved to the Stone Works Museum during the 1992-1996 restoration, and the minaret was restored in 1992.
Among the stones kept in the mosque garden are fragments naming Gaspar Mavroceni of the Venetian Mavroceni family, dated 1402, and Hugh de Mimars, dated 1324. Two unfinished 16th-century tomb-slabs in Italian Renaissance low relief, with empty shields for coats of arms, are the only ones in that style.
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