Selimiye Mosque

The most important attraction in Nicosia. Slippers enter, women have to prepare a gauze around the door. This is a foreign friend who took us there, we took a ride together, and had a pleasant day.

The Selimiya Mosque is the largest mosque in Cyprus and is a building dating back more than 600 years during the Ottoman occupation. The building is very similar to the existing mosque in Turkey, with huge domes and several tall towers very spectacular. It is a landmark in Nicosia and one of the must-see attractions.

The Nicosia Selimiya Mosque is the most important attraction in Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus, and the architecture is magnificent and respectable. It was built in 1209-1326 and was originally a Frank Cathedral.

The Sarimiya mosque complex also includes Islamic schools, an indoor market, a guard room, an outhouse and a library. The mosque uses tiles produced at Iznik's peak as interior materials, representing the highest achievement of the art form created by this tile so far. The Salimiya mosque complex is also considered to be the Ottoman külliye (a group of buildings built around the mosque,

Mosques are available in every country, but the building of this mosque is still very strange, the four pillars around the four are very high in the middle, I don’t know what it means.