After the nearby Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque (née St Nicholas Cathedral), the former Church of St Peter and St Paul is the best and most intact example of Gothic architecture in Famagusta - owing largely to the fact that it was ignored by the Venetians and also escaped more or less unscathed during the 16th-century Ottoman conquest of the city. Although it was of course also converted to a mosque and renamed in honour of that grandest of Grand Viziers, Sinan Pasha, a name which it still maintains to this day.

Originally built during the reign of Lusignan King Peter I in the middle of the early 1360s, the most notable architectural element of the building are the massive fly buttresses, which also helped it to survive many an earthquake over the years. However, the Curator of Ancient Monuments during British rule in the early 20th century, George H. Everett Jeffery, was apparently not the biggest fan of these buttresses, once deriding that, ‘nothing could be uglier or more opposed to the beauty of true Gothic architecture than the exterior of this immense church'. We'll have to politely disagree with Mr Jeffery here.

Another peculiarity of British rule was that the now former church and former mosque was used primarily as storage for wheat and other agricultural produce, which led to it being known locally as the Buğday Camii (Wheat Mosque). Unfortunately, it is not currently open to the public, so can only be appreciated from the outside - just heed the warning sign on the front façade and keep your distance when doing so, as that mischievous gravity is known to relish the chance to toss a dangerous stone or two upon the odd tourist's noggin.