New Mosque, Ottoman mosque in Nicosia, Cyprus

The New Mosque is a mosque on Yenicami Sokak in the northern part of Nicosia. The present building, completed in 1898–1899, has a rectangular prayer hall fronted by an L-shaped portico, a plan shared with other late Ottoman mosques on the island. Beside it stand the minaret and southwest corner remains of the earlier mosque, and four tombs.

The site originally held a church that was converted into a mosque in 1571, after the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus. The current building dates to 1898 and replaced that earlier structure entirely.

The mosque gives its name to the Yeni Jami quarter and to Yenicami Street, where it stands at number 8. A passage in its courtyard once linked Yenicami and Kuruçeşme streets; in 1962 it was recorded that thousands of people crossed it daily. Four tombs survive beside the mosque, including those of Menteşzade Hacı İsmail Ağa and the poet Hasan Hilmi Efendi.

The mosque stands at 8, Yenicami Sokak, in the Yeni Jami quarter of northern Nicosia, with KurucseSme Sokak on its other side; a passage through the courtyard once linked the two streets. The Ottoman cemetery around it was cleared in the 1950s, and the ablution fountain, demolished in 1959, was rebuilt in 2003. Four tombs stand beside the building.

Four Ottoman tombs attributed to the Menteszade family stand on the mosque grounds and are easy to walk past without noticing. Family graves placed directly next to an active place of worship are rare in the region.