The church of Panayia tou Arakou, Lagoudera which dates from the late 12C  is a single aisled building with 3 arched recesses in each of the walls and a dome over the centre. It was re-roofed in the 18C with a protective steep-pitched flat-tiled roof.

The Buyuk Khan, Nicosia. The   ‘ great inn ’   was built by Mustapha Pasha immediately after the invasion of the island in 1571 ‘for the benefit of foreigners ’. The rooms, capable of housing 67 people, are arranged on 2 floors round a courtyard in the middle of which is an octagonal mosque built over a water tank.

St Nicholas Cathedral (Lala Mustapha Mosque)Famagusta. Built in the early 14C and consecrated in 1326, it was severely damaged in the siege of 1571 and converted into a mosque.

The 12C church of Panayia Katholiki, Kouklia, is cruciform with a central dome.  

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