Saçaklı Ev.

What to see at Saçaklı Ev

• An L-plan, two-storey house around a square inner courtyard, with three rooms on each floor.
• The main room projects over the street on sloping brackets under deep eaves, which give Saçaklı Ev (the Eaved House) its name.
• A Gothic arch found in the lower gallery during restoration shows medieval remains under the Ottoman house.

History of Saçaklı Ev

1932

An inscription over the door records major repairs; the wide door and large stone-framed window date from them.

1986

The state expropriates the house.

1994–96

Restoration removes later additions, and the house becomes a culture and arts centre.

Visiting Saçaklı Ev

Allow about half an hour. The house is on Kütüphane Sokak in the Selimiye quarter, inside the walled city of Lefkoşa. A car park is mapped about 50 m away, and intercity buses stop at Kyrenia Gate (Girne Kapısı), about 650 m on foot.

Monuments near Saçaklı Ev

• Lapidary Museumabout 50 m north-eastMedieval carved stone in a Venetian-style house that once lodged pilgrims.
• Selimiye Mosqueabout 100 m westThe Gothic cathedral of Lefkoşa, a mosque since 1570, with two minarets.
• Bedestenabout 100 m westA church that grew over a thousand years and became an Ottoman covered market.