The Arabahmet Mosque sits tucked away behind its walls at the northern end of the Salahi Sevket Street in the Arabahmet District of Nicosia. It was built in the late 16th century and named after Arab Ahmet Pasha, commander in the 1571 Ottoman expedition and Governor General of Rhodes.

Built in Anatolian style, its dome is erected on a square main structure. It rests upon the remains of an old Latin church and its floor tiles hide some 25 Christian tombstones with inscriptions and drawings. The mosque was restored in 1845 and again during the 1990s.

Arabahmet is the sleeping beauty among Nicosia's Mosques. Lying in the quiet shade of an exceptionally rich and well kept garden, it soothes the senses of the visitor.

Rather ununsual for a Mosque, tombs are scattered between the trees and flowers surrounding the building, the most illustrous being the one of Kamil Pasha, a son of the city born in 1832. As the only Cypriot, he reached the rank of a Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire. He died in his home town Nicosia in 1913, and, in 1927, Sir Ronald Storrs, then Governor of Cyprus, had a tombstone erected in his memory.