Ak Kavuk, Nicosia

In this case the Quarter was named after General Ak Kavuk Pasha.

[4] On the site of what appeared to be a small mediaeval chapel or church, a mosque was built in 1902.

The apse of the original building with a moulded arched window of 16th century style survived, but all such traces have now been removed.

[4] On the southern wall at opposite of the doorway, there is a mihrab with an addition of a nearby wooden mimbar.

[7] On the Barbaro/Musalla bastion is a Turkish military encampment, within which there is a Museum of National Struggle[8]

The map shows the Neighbourhood or Quarter of Ak Kavuk, with the mosque of Ak Kavuk or Abu Kavuk in the south-east corner of the Quarter. In the north is the Barbaro (Musalla) Bastion, on the Venetian walls of Nicosia . Borders as at c. 1900.