Bayraktar Mosque Nicosia Cyprus Cyprus was conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Turks in The Bayraktar Mosque was the first mosque to be built in Nicosia after the conquest It was constucted on the Constanza Bastion where the the Ottomans first scaled the city walls led by their standard bearer bayraktar The mosque was rebuilt in but suffered damage from bombs during the sectarian conflict on Cyprus in the mid s after which it was closed Restoration work began in
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