Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios Mansion, Ottoman era mansion in Saint Antonios, Cyprus

Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios Mansion is a two-storey building of 1793 in old Nicosia, constructed from local block-cut sandstone. Its three wings form a Greek Π around a courtyard with a marble fountain dated 29 July 1803 and a three-room hammam. A marble tablet inside the entrance carries the owner's monogram and the date 1793.

Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios, a native of Kritou Tera in Paphos province, served as dragoman to the Sultan's Divan from 1779 and received a lifetime appointment from Selim III in 1796. The house was built in 1793; after his beheading in Constantinople on 31 March 1809 his property was confiscated and sold to Hatice Hanım for 13,000 grosi. In 1830 his youngest son bought it back with a loan from the diocese, and it opened as a museum on 3 May 1960.

The name comes from its original owner, a wealthy man from the time when Ottomans controlled the island. The rooms preserve traditional furniture and objects that show how prosperous families lived back then.

The museum is at 20 Patriarchou Grigoriou Street in the old town, near the Archbishopric. The entrance is through the arched main gate on the north facade; the courtyard, marble fountain and three-room hammam are seen before the upper reception rooms, reached by roofed wooden stairs with a stone base.

Above the main gate, a marble plaque shows the winged lion of Venice holding an open gospel with the Latin words "Pax tibi Marce Evangelista meus"; it was probably reused from an earlier building, and its face looks outward.