Mosque · Northern Cemetery

Complex of Sultan Al-Ashraf Barsbay

The desert funerary mosque of the sultan who brought Cyprus under Egyptian rule.

Built in 1432 in the Northern Cemetery, this mosque and khanqah honors al-Ashraf Barsbay, the Mamluk sultan whose fleet conquered Cyprus in 1426. Its finely carved stone dome and slender minaret stand among the elegant tomb-mosques that give the City of the Dead its skyline.

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