Bayraktar Mosque

We drove by it, lovely!

Having a short visit in Cyprus allows me to at least see ana admire these magnifiscent structures from the car while I was being driven by it. It amazes me how in those such structures could be built....

On the City Walls

Convenient place to start the tour of the Old Town. Parking adjacent.Dates from 16th century and is small and manageable. Chequered history. Worth a short visit.

Old Well Preserved Mosque

This Mosque was built in the early nineteenth Century by the Ottomans named after the first flag that was raised in the 16th Century in Nicosia. The well preserved stone built Mosque is situated at...

The mosque of the flag

Original Text

It is located on the bastion of Constanza, it is not imperviable. A curiosity, its name means flag, because it was the first place where the Turks were their flag when they conquered Nicosia. T...

It's outside the walls.

Original Text

A mosque just outside the walls surrounding the old town of Nicosia, Northern Cyprus. It wasn't a big building, but it was a beautiful sight surrounded by greenery.