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North Nicosia Museums
Lapidari (Stone-work) Museum
This is a museum of stone fragments taken from the demolition
of ancient buildings.
Dervish Pasha Mansion: Ethnographical Museum
The konak of Ahmed Dervish Pasha, a traditional Nicosia mansion,
is on Belig Pasha Street which is off Salahi Shevket Street.
It houses the island's richest collection of Ottoman artifacts.
It is one of the hidden treasures of the city.
Mevlevi (Whirling-Dervishes) Tekke Museum
A Tekke is a religious lodging house. This was home to the
Mevlevi Order founded by the poet Jela - ed - din Roumi Mevlana
in the thirteenth century. There is a long room containing
the tombs of various Dervis. This seventeenth century building
is now used as a museum.
Museum of Barbarism
This is the house of Dr. Nihat Ilhan, a major who was serving
in the Cyprus Turkish Contingent in 1963. During the inter-communal
troubles of December that year, the house was attacked by
the Greek-Cypriot terrorists. Dr. Ilhan's wife and three children
were ruthlessly murdered in the bathroom where they had tried
to hide. The house, in the Kumsal district of Nicosia has
been preserved as a museum.
Library of Sultan Mahmud II
It was built by Sultan Mahmud II in the early years of the
last century and its style of architecture is that of Islam. |
