Esma Sultan Yalısı

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The preserved outer walls made of red bricks with the barely visible new building inside

The summer residence of Esma Sultan ( Esma Sultan Yalısı in Turkish ) is a former Yalı on the banks of the Bosphorus in the Ortaköy district of Istanbul's Beşiktaş district . The building is named after the Ottoman princess Esma Sultan (1778–1848). Today the building is the seat of an event center.

history

The three-storey structure was built by the Ottoman court architect Sarkis Balyan next to the Ortaköy Mosque and completed in 1875. It was a wedding present for the daughter of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz .

The palace remained in the possession of the Ottoman rulers until 1915. The building was then used briefly as a Greek school, in 1920 as a warehouse for tobacco, as a coal depot and a carpenter's workshop, until it was destroyed by a fire in 1975. The ruin, which consisted only of outer walls, was acquired by the Marmara Hotels chain in the early 1990s and converted into an event center.

The house is the venue for the Istanbul International Jazz Festival and the Istanbul International Music Festival .

architecture

The outer walls made of red bricks were completely preserved. The architects Haluk Sezgin and Philippe Robert put a steel and glass construction inside the building. In 2001 the event center was reopened. The architect Gökhan Avcıoğlu carried out a further expansion by 2005 . The building houses a bar, a restaurant and a multi-storey event hall. The building is located in a garden with a size of 2,226 m². The ground floor is 31.5 meters wide, 27 meters long and 3.80 meters high. The first and second floors were merged for the event hall. The hall is 31.5 meters wide, 31 meters long and 6.80 meters high.

Web links

Commons : Esma Sultan Yalısı  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Building , The Marmara Hotels, accessed April 26, 2019
  2. ^ History of the Istanbul International Jazz Festival , Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, accessed April 26, 2019
  3. ^ Esma Sultan , GAD Architecture, accessed April 26, 2019
  4. ↑ Esma Sultan Mansion , ArchNet, accessed April 26, 2019
  5. ^ Incentive Venues and Social Programs ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 41 ° 2 '50.9 "  N , 29 ° 1' 38.8"  E