Akkavuk Masjid

Akkavuk Masjid (Turkish: Akkavuk Mescidi) is a mosque without a minaret in the Akkavuk quarter of Nicosia, currently located in North Nicosia. The mosque was built in 1902, On the site of what appeared to be a small medieval chapel or church. A smaller mosque on the site had been built in 1895. The apse of the original building with a moulded arched window of 16th-century style survived, but all such traces have now been removed.^[1]

The masjid is made of cut stone (ashlar) and has a rectangular layout. It has three sharp arches in the front façade, and the space between the arches have been covered by glass in a renovation.^[2] On the southern wall at opposite of the entrance, there is a mihrab and a nearby wooden mimbar.^[3] The masjid also had a fountain during the British rule.^[4]

The masjid has an area of 132 m² and can hold 188 worshipers.^[5]

References

↑ "A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus" by George Jeffery, Architect. Publ. Government Printing Office, Nicosia, 1918.
↑ Alasya, Halil Fikret (2012). "Kıbrıs". İslam Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). 25. Türk Diyanet Vakfı. p. 386.
↑ Nicosia Turkish Municipality website https://web.archive.org/web/20131219021036/http://lefkosabelediyesi.org/english/historical_places/historical_place_1.htm archived Dec 2013, retrieved on 7 August 2015.
↑ Gazi, Ufuk. "Lefkoşa'da İngiliz dönemi imar faaliyetleri" (PDF) (in Turkish). Near East University. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
↑ "Lefkoşa'ya 3657 mümin aranıyor". Haber Kıbrıs. 20 February 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2016.

Landmarks in North Nicosia

Note: this includes landmarks in the North Nicosia metropolitan area

City walls	Kyrenia Gate

Museums	Dervish Pasha Mansion Lapidary Museum Lusignan House Mevlevi Tekke Museum Museum of Barbarism Museum of Classical and Sports Cars Private Ethnographic Museum of Cyprus

Mosques and churches	Akkavuk Masjid Arab Ahmet Mosque Bedesten Church of Ayios Loukas Dükkanlar Önü Mosque Haydar Pasha Mosque İplik Pazarı Mosque Kanlı Masjid Laleli Mosque New Mosque Notre Dame de Tyre Sarayönü Mosque Selimiye Mosque (St. Sophia Cathedral) Turunçlu Mosque

Buildings in the walled city	Büyük Han Büyük Hamam Evkaf Building Kadı Menteş Mansion Kumarcilar Han Law Courts Library of Mahmud II Post Office Eaved House Samanbahçe

Shopping and entertainment	Arasta Bandabulya Bedrettin Demirel Avenue Dereboyu

Parks, spaces and squares	Anıttepe Asmaaltı Square Cumhuriyet Park Kumsal Park Sarayönü Square Yiğitler Bastion Park

Buildings outside the walled city	Assembly of the Republic Nicosia Atatürk Stadium Nicosia International Fair Türk Maarif Koleji

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