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Tourist Spot Attractions In Nicosia District

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Nicosia is the largest city on the island of Cyprus. It is located near the centre of the Mesaoria plain, on the banks of the River Pedieos. Nicosia is the capital and seat of government of Cyprus, and as such is the farthest southeast of all EU member states' capitals. It has been continuously inhabited for over 4,500 years and has been the capital of Cyprus since the 10th century. The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities of Nicosia segregated into the south and north of the city respectively in 1963, following the crisis from 1955–64 that broke out in the city. This division became a militarized border between the Republic of Cyprus and No...
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Tourist Spot Attractions In Nicosia District

  • 1. Selimiye Mosque Nicosia
    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 main mosque of the city. The Selimiye Mosque is housed in the largest and oldest surviving Gothic church in Cyprus possibly constructed on the site of an earlier Byzantine church. In total, the mosque has a capacity to hold 2500 worshipers with 1750 m2 available for worship. It is the largest surviving historical building in Nicosia, and according to sources, it may have been the largest church built in the Eastern Mediterranean in the millennium between the rise of Islam and the late Ottoman period. It was the coronation church for the Lusignan kings of Cyprus.
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  • 8. Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis Church Kakopetria
    The Church of St. Nicholas of the Roof is an 11th-century Byzantine monastery that flourished in Kakopetria, Cyprus. The church is the only surviving Middle Byzantine katholikon in Cyprus during the 11th century and is not mentioned until the 13th century in surviving texts. St. Nicholas of the Roof prospered from the Middle Byzantine era until the beginning of Frankish rule, around the 12th century. Since Frankish rule the church remained open, but served as a small village church and a pilgrimage site. The church is one of the nine Painted Churches in the Troödos Region, which was labeled as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.
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  • 9. St. John Cathedral Nicosia
    St. John Theologian's Cathedral in Nicosia is the main church of the Church of Cyprus. It's located in Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus. The church was built in 1662 on the ruins of Benedictine monastery. There take place the enthronements of Archbishops of Cyprus.
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  • 11. Agios Ioannis Nicosia
    Agios Ioannis is a deserted village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, located within the UN Buffer Zone close to Kato Pyrgos.
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  • 12. Bedestan Church and Mosque Nicosia
    A bedestan is a covered market usually for haberdashery and craftsmanship. Bezistans were built in Ottoman Empire and their design is based on the design of the mosques.A bedestan, in the most basic definition, is the central building of the commercial part of the town. It has its origins in the Greco-Roman Basilica or Kaiserion, which served a similar purpose. The bedestan was such an important building that during Ottoman times cities were often classified under two categories, cities with a Bedestan and cities without a Bedestan.
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  • 13. Church of the Holy Cross Nicosia
    The Church of the Holy Cross is a Roman Catholic parish located in the city of Nicosia in Cyprus.The first church dedicated to the Holy Cross was built in 1642 and operated continuously until the late nineteenth century. In April 1900 a new church dedicated to the Holy Cross was financially supported in part by the Spanish Royal Family and partly by the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land. Its formal inauguration took place in 1902. It also has a friary which was rebuilt in 1959. Part of the access to the garden was blocked as a consequence of the 1963 turbulences and the war of 1974, as the church sits in the buffer zone between Nicosia and North Nicosia.The parish depends from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
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