Buyuk Han

Buyuk Han is the largest caravansarai on the island of Cyprus and is considered to be one of the finest buildings on the island. Located in the capital of Cyprus, it was built by the Ottomans in 1572, the year after they had seized Cyprus from the Venetians. In the focal point of the open patio is a mosque with a wellspring for pre-supplication ablutions. It turned into the main city jail under British organization.

In the wake of spending a large portion of the 1990s being reestablished, the motel has been resuscitated as a flourishing expressions focus, comprising of a few displays and workshops. There are additionally a few patio bistros and gift shops. As per chronicled records, the building was worked in 1572 under the support of Muzaffer Pasha, the main Ottoman legislative head of Cyprus, and was designed according to Koza Han in Bursa. The building was purportedly based upon the remaining parts of a more seasoned one.

In any case, excavator Tuncer qualities the development of the hotel to his successor, Sinan Pasha, as Muzaffer Pasha had been delegated as the legislative leader of Tripolitania on 26 August 1571. There is one surviving letter from Selim II about the motel, where, after being educated that a few shops had been decimated to assemble a caravansarai, he requested that if the caravansarai was not productive for the vakef, it ought to be destroyed and supplanted with new shops.