Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
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The Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque ( Greek Τέμενος Λαλά Μουσταφά Πασά Temenos Lalá Moustafa Pasa ), formerly Of Saint Nicholas Cathedral ( Turkish Aziz Nikolas Katedrali ) and then later Ayasofya (St. Sophia.) , Is a mosque in Famagusta and the the city's former Christian cathedral ; today it is located in the area of Cyprus that is under the control of the de facto regime “ Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ”.
history
The former St. Nicholas Cathedral was by the Crusaders as a second coronation cathedral of Lusignan comparatively soon after its foundation stone (1298) in the same year consecrated as the Sophia Cathedral in Nicosia , 1326. Immediately after the capture of Famagusta (which in Turkish Gazimağusa renamed was) by the Ottomans in 1571 the church was rededicated to a mosque and named after the commander in chief of the conquerors, Lala Kara Mustafa Pascha .
In the square to the left of the cathedral there is a mulberry fig (Ficus sycomorus), planted in 1299.
In the shade of the mulberry fig, but in the inner courtyard of the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, is the Türbe of Mustapha Zühü Efendi, an important clergyman who was Imam Hatip and Kavan and who died in 1903. The tomb is unchanged. A canopy made of stone, consisting of four round arches and above a simple dome, rises above a square base. Below is the sarcophagus. The arched openings are closed by a wrought iron grille with a tendril motif. In front of it an entrance closed with an iron grille.
literature
- Camille Enlart (translated by David Hunt): Gothic Art and the Renaissance in Cyprus , Paris 1899 / London 1987, pp. 222–226.
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Coordinates: 35 ° 7 ′ 29.6 ″ N , 33 ° 56 ′ 33.8 ″ E