Residential house Dervis Pasha - Mevli Tekke
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The owner and planner of this two-story 19th century residential house was Dervis Pascha, the editor of the first Turkish daily newspaper in Cyprus.
The house is located in the historically significant Arap Ahmet district, which has many exclusive residential buildings from the past centuries.
Reopened as a cultural history museum
Later, today's main room was added to the building, in which the second entrance is located. The year 1869 can be seen as the year of construction in the ceiling, which is richly decorated with ornaments.
The residential building is built in the shape of a large “L”, which creates a large courtyard. The rooms on the ground floor all open onto the inner courtyard, giving the impression of a series of pavilions in an almost circular design.
After extensive restoration work between 1978 and 1988, the house was reopened as a cultural history museum.
Today it includes the main room, the bridal room, the dining room and several other sections where there are many ancient artifacts of Cypriot history on display.
The Mevli Tekke Museum
This building was designed and built by Arap Ahmet Paşa, who came to the island during the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus.
Arap Ahmet Paşa, who, together with the commander of the conquering army, Lala Mustafa Paşa, belonged to the brotherhood of the Mevlevi Order, a brotherhood founded by Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi and also known as the “Dancing Dervishes”.
Today this house can also be seen as an ethnological museum, as it shows a range of Cypriot clothing, cooking utensils and handwritten minutes of court hearings up to 1950.
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