Selimiye Mosque

Selimiye Mosque, historically known as Cathedral of Saint Sophia, is a former Roman Catholic cathedral converted into a mosque, located in North Nicosia. It is the primary mosque of the city. The Selimiye Mosque is housed in the biggest and most seasoned surviving Gothic church in Cyprus inside measurements: 66 X 21 m perhaps built on the site of a prior Byzantine church. Altogether, the mosque has an ability to hold 2500 admirers with 1750 m2 accessible for venerate. It is the biggest surviving authentic working in Nicosia, and as per sources, it "might have been the biggest church worked in the Eastern Mediterranean in the thousand years between the ascent of Islam and the late Ottoman time frame".

It was the crowning liturgy church for the Lusignan lords of Cyprus. It isn't sure when the development of the church started, it might have step by step supplanted its Greek ancestor or may have been worked nearby it. The date refered to for the establishing of the framework stone is 1209, and the Latin diocese supervisor of Nicosia in charge of this is named in different sources as Thierry or Albert. There are cases of proof demonstrating a prior starting date, and even the Knights Templar may have endeavored for the development of another house of God amid their manage in 1191-92.