The minarets
Tall twins.
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The Selimiye Mosque, once the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, is a mosque in the northern part of old Nicosia and historically the main mosque on the island of Cyprus. It occupies the largest and oldest surviving Gothic church in Cyprus. Its interior is 66 metres long and 21 metres wide, holding some 2,500 worshippers. It is the largest surviving historic building in Nicosia and was the coronation church of the kings of Cyprus. It may have been the largest church built in the Eastern Mediterranean between the rise of Islam and the late Ottoman period. It became a mosque after the Ottoman conquest. You see a tall sand-coloured Gothic stone front with pointed doorways and a large carved window, and two tall slender minarets rising over the towers. The lanes and cafés of the old city surround it under the trees, and the minarets show above the roofs from afar. It is about 400 metres from the centre of old Nicosia in a straight line. It is a working place of worship, so respect prayer times and dress modestly. Visitors from the south cross at the checkpoints with a passport, and the Republic of Cyprus treats entry through the north's airport as illegal entry.
Tall twins.
Gothic.
Around it.
Northern part of old Nicosia, Cyprus
Famagusta Gate and the Venetian WallsThe chief gate in the Venetian walls that ring the old town of Nicosia, known in8 minutes walk4.1
Laiki GeitoniaA traditional pedestrian quarter inside the walls of old Nicosia, near Eleftheri9 minutes walk4.5
Cyprus MuseumThe oldest and largest archaeological museum in Cyprus, in central Nicosia, with12 minutes walk4.7The Cathedral of Saint Sophia, the coronation church of Cyprus's kings.
Through the crossing points with a passport; the Republic of Cyprus treats entry via the north's airport as illegal.