The Pairaktar Djami (within the walls), Nicosia
”The Pairaktar Djami, with a Persian wheel and a water trough in front of it, has a Gothic vaulted hall with side arches, a latticed wing, and a minaret. Over the door we read a Turkish inscription; three arches carry the flat roof. The stone Mihrab and Mem Ber decorated with gold, but somewhat heavy and obsolete, are standing on the left: there is a balcony over the entrance. On the left of it the grave of the first Turk coming to Levkosia: it has a green cover and a flag of the same colour; by the side of it an alms-box. The floor is covered with reoskin rugs.”
The mosque of Bayraktar is built on the Constanza Bastion, in honour of the flag-carrier who fisrt climbed onto the walls of Nicosia during the siege of the town by the Ottoman troops in 1570. The mosque dates to 1820. It was restored and opened for worship in late 2003.
Sources: Louis Salvator, Levkosia – The Capital of Cyprus, 1881 and Muslim places of worship in Cyprus (Published by the Press and Information Office, Republic of Cyprus)