According to T. Bağişkan there were two mosques in the village. The old one was in a ruinous state in 1934 and was replaced by a new mosque on an adjacent plot. The keystone of this mosque, which was built by a Greek Cypriot tender, was laid in 1935.
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In the course of the village's history, at least two mosques existed. According to the cadastral map, the old mosque was located in the centre of the village. Nothing is known about its fate. Today there no traces of this building left. The story behind the new mosque, located at the western entrance to the village right next to the Agios Nikolaos church, is also not clear. Bagiskan mentions that this was a school building that was later reused as a mosque. Based on the construction, it seems to be a newer building, rebuilt after the severe earthquake of 1953.
The mosque is located on the western edge of the former village centre. Little is known about its history, but it is certain that the current building replaced a previous mosque on the same site. Bağişkan assumes that the building was rebuilt after the 1953 earthquake. Aerial photographs from 1963 show that the building has no roof at that time. It may have been newly built at that time.
The Dede Sipahi Mosque is centrally located in the old settlement area. The mosque as well as the school right next door seem to have been built around 1910 at about the same time. The mosque was thus a successor to a mosque that had already been built on the same site in Ottoman times.
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