Cedid Mehmet Efendi Medresesi

Sultanahmet


Renovated by the Turkish Touring & Automobile Club, this 18th-century medrese's classrooms and dorms house a small selection of handicraft shops.


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1. Sultanahmet Archaeological Park

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Excavations here have uncovered parts of the Great Palace of Byzantium. The park has been closed for restoration for almost a decade, with no signs of it…

2. Tomb of Sultan Ahmet I

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The türbe (tomb) of Sultan Ahmet I, the Blue Mosque’s great patron, is on the north side of the mosque facing Sultanahmet Park. Ahmet, who had ascended to…

3. Aya Sofya Tombs

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Part of the Aya Sofya complex but entered via Babıhümayun Caddesi, these tombs are the final resting places of five 16th- and 17th-century sultans –…

4. Arasta Bazaar

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This historic arcade of shops was once part of the külliye (mosque complex) of the Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii). Mosques built by the great and…

5. Milion

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This was kilometre zero during the Byzantine Empire: the starting point of the Via Egnatia, the great road linking Constantinople with the Adriatic coast,…

6. Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque

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Right in the heart of İstanbul’s historic center, this sacred Byzantine building remains an important symbol of power.

7. Kaiser Wilhelm's Fountain

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Near the northern end of the Hippodrome, this little gazebo with beautiful stonework was presented to the sultan and his people as a token of friendship…

8. Basilica Cistern

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This subterranean structure was commissioned by Emperor Justinian and built in 532. The largest surviving Byzantine cistern in İstanbul, it was…