Akkule

What to see at Akkule

• A small mescit of cut stone whose crooked, trapezoid plan follows the Venetian walls it was built against.
• Plaster-lattice windows, an arched door with a marble slab dated 1618/19 above it, and a mihrab with a stalactite niche inside.
• Its flat roof is carried on a single arch.

History of Akkule

15th–16th century

The Venetians renew Famagusta's walls, the fortifications the mescit will later lean on.

1571

The Ottomans conquer Famagusta.

1618–19

The mescit is built against the Venetian walls; a marble slab over the door carries the date.

Visiting Akkule

Allow about half an hour. Akkule stands inside the walls of Gazimağusa (Famagusta), by the Land Gate (Kara Kapısı). A car park is mapped about 50 m away, and the nearest mapped bus stop is the İtimat bus terminal, about 200 m away.

Monuments near Akkule

• Namık Kemal Dungeonabout 450 m north-eastThe cell where the Ottoman poet Namık Kemal was exiled from 1873 to 1876.
• Famagusta Walled Cityabout 450 m north-eastA Gothic city of churches inside Venetian walls.
• Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosqueabout 500 m north-eastA French Gothic cathedral with a minaret, the centre of old Gazimağusa.