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Ahmet Mosque
Arab Ahmet Mosque
The most notable of the mosques built by
the Turks in Nicosia is the Arap Ahmet Mosque. The mosque,
like many others, was constructed on the site of an old Latin
church. Among the marble floor tiles of the mosque are around
25 tombstones with epitaths and drawings. The mosque was named
after one of the generals of the Turkish army during the conquest
of the island. It is a good example of classical Turkish mosque
architecture. It has an arched terrace and a dome six metres
in diameter. The garden with graves belonging to Turks have
been preserved in good condition. It is a special corner of
Nicosia with its fountain, cypress trees and graves. Among
the graves is the grave of Kamil Pasha, born in 1832 in Nicosia,
who rose to the rank of Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire
4 times. Kamil Pasha died in Nicosia in 1913 and was buried
in the courtyard of the mosque. In 1927, Sir Ronald Storss,
the governor of Cyprus between 1926-1931, had a tomb made
for Kamil Pasha with a panel in Turkish and English placed
on it.
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