Taht-el-kale (Greek: Τάχτ Ελ Καλέ; Turkish: Tahtakale) is a neighbourhood, quarter of Nicosia, Cyprus[1][2][3] and the mosque situated therein.

[10] Mufti Atalay visited the mosque after an invitation from Archbishop Chrysostomos as part of the Religious Track of the Cyprus Peace Process, an initiative under the auspices of the Embassy of Sweden Nicosia.

The mufti was accompanied by the EVKAF Foundation's Chairperson Rauf Ersenal, a native of Taht-el kale neighbourhood, whose family fled the area in 1963 never to return.

This construction, in the Venetian style has been copied from the famous Lazaretto Gate of Candia designed by Michael Sammicheli at the beginning of the 16th century, and consists of a vaulted passage through the earthwork rampart of the city with a carefully executed spherical dome, eleven metres in diameter, in its centre.

The passageway is large enough for two vehicles to pass, and it is lighted by a circular opening in the centre of the dome in the style of the Pantheon at Rome.

The external doorway of the Porta Giuliana is a small archway in the re-entering angle or " orecchione " of the Caraffa bastion now somewhat injured by breakage of the arch stones, and the ancient doors, etc., are missing.