Adile Sultan Palace
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The Adile Sultan Palace ( Turkish Adile Sultan Sarayı ) is the former residence of the Ottoman Princess Adile Sultan . Adile Sultan donated the building to the state with the condition that it be used for the Anatolian Kandilli Girls' High School ( Turkish Kandilli Kız Anadolu Lisesi ). Today a culture and event center is housed there.
location
The small palace is located in the Kandilli district in Istanbul's Üsküdar district . The palace stands in one of the formerly most prominent places in Istanbul on the hill of a headland on the Asian bank of the Bosphorus . From here you have a wide view over the strait .
history
The palace was built by the court architect Sarkis Balyan in 1861 for the Ottoman princess Adile Sultan (1826–1899). She was the daughter of Sultan Mahmud II and sister of the sultans Abdülmecid I and Abdülaziz . The building was built in place of an old kiosk that Sultan Abdülmecid had given her in 1856. Sultan Abdülaziz then commissioned the architect Balyan to build the new building. The palace has 55 rooms and was built on a plot of 17,000 m².
Adile Sultan lived here until the death of her husband, Grand Vizier Mehmed Ali Pascha , in 1868. She then gave the residence to the Ottoman state with the stipulation that the building would be converted into a girls' school after her death. Before the building was used for this, it was part of the War Department for a while during World War I.
In 1916 the building became the secondary school for girls Adile Sultan İnas Mekteb-i Sultanisi (German Imperial Girls School Adile Sultan ). The first female graduates left the school in 1920. Four years later, after the founding of the republic, the school was renamed the Kandilli Secondary School . In 1931 the school became the Kandilli Girls' High School . In 1968 the school moved to a new building and the former palace became a dormitory for the boarding school students of the lyceum . In 1986 the house burned down to the ground due to a short circuit and remained in ruins.
Shortly afterwards, former students of the school set up a foundation and collected funds for reconstruction. Construction work started in 1996, but the costs could not be covered with the donations and so the reconstruction kept stalling. Only donations from the industrialist Sakıp Sabancı and grants from the Valis (governor) of Istanbul Muammer Guler enabled the construction work to continue. But construction stalled again and only a further donation from the Sabancıs finally led to the completion of the reconstruction. The reconstruction of the Adile Sultan Palace took ten years and cost 9.5 million Turkish Lira (approx. 5 million euros). The reopening could only be celebrated 20 years after the fire on June 28, 2006.
Today the building is called "Sakıp Sabancı Kandilli Education and Cultural Center". The center is 5,625 m² and has an oval hall for 500 people for meetings and banquets, two further conference rooms for 200 people each, a 1,300 m² hall for receptions and exhibitions, as well as 20 seminar rooms with 30 to 40 seats, a museum, one Dining room for 150 people and a restaurant with 60 seats. The garden can accommodate 2,000 people.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alyson Wharton: The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople: The Balyan Family and the History of Ottoman Architecture . IB Tauris, London / New York 2015, p. 46
- ↑ Adile Sultan kapılarını yeniden açıyor . Sabah , June 23, 2006
- ↑ Press release by Sabancı Holding ( Memento from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 41 ° 4 ′ 19.8 ″ N , 29 ° 3 ′ 28.7 ″ E