ARABAHMET MOSQUE

This beautiful mosque (Arabahmet Camii) is surrounded by a garden and a small cemetery. Giving its name to the Arabahmet district, it is one of the few domed mosques in the country. Built at the end of the ^16th century on the site of a church, it was named in honor of Arab Ahmet Pasha, Ottoman governor of Rhodes who took part in the conquest of Cyprus in 1570-1571. The pavement preserves fragments of Christian tombstones. Among the inscriptions are the names and years of death of members of the great Frankish and Venetian families.