Buyuk Han, located southwest of Asmaaltı Square, one of the traditional trade centers of Nicosia, the capital of the Cyprus peninsula, was a very important trade inn for the entire Cyprus peninsula. Being one of the two inns that have survived from the Ottoman period to the present day, Buyuk Han is also very important in terms of cultural history.
Buyuk Han, which was built by taking the "Koza Inn" model in Bursa, was known as the New Inn when it was first built, but it was also known as the Alanyalılar Inn because it was a place where merchants coming from Alanya stayed. However, in the 17th century, when the Kumarcılar Inn was built in Asmaaltı Square, it began to be called Buyuk Han.
Buyuk Han, which was used as a prison and police headquarters by the British colony between 1878-1903, is known to have been imprisoned here by Hasan Bullliler, one of the fugitives of the law who was even the subject of epics, and the founder of the Tabur İmam Tekke, the Cezayirli Tabur İmam.
Between 1947 and 1962, the rooms of the Han were rented to poor families, and for this reason, the Han resembled a small neighborhood. The Han, which was restored between 1982 and 2002, served as a center where handicrafts specific to Cyprus were made and sold.
The two-story Han's ground floor rooms were used as a business and the upper floor rooms as a hotel. There are a total of 68 rooms on the lower and upper floors, and 10 single-story shops behind the porticoes at the eastern entrance. The porticoes on both sides of the main entrance door in the eastern section, which opens onto Asmaaltı Square, housed feed and water troughs for animals. The high-arched western door of the Han facilitated the entry of camels into the Han.
In the central courtyard of the Buyuk Han, there is a pavilion-style mosque rising on columns. There is a water tank under the mosque and it is not known for sure who the grave in the southwest of the kiosk mosque belongs to.