Yıldız Palace
29 Kasım 2024

Yıldız Palace

Yıldız Palace, the last example of Turkish Ottoman palace architecture, is located on Yıldız hill in the Beşiktaş district. Sultan Ahmed I had the first pavilion built on this land, which was used as a hunting ground by the sultans since the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566) and was registered in the Treasury. At the end of the 18th century, Sultan III. Selim had Yıldız Pavilion built for his mother, Mihrişah Sultan, and a fountain for his father. Sultan Abdülaziz, who usually lived in the Yıldız Mansion during the summer months, had the Büyük Mabeyn Mansion built, and later added the Malta and Çadır Pavilions to the outer garden and the Çit Pavilion to the main part.

Yıldız Sarayı

The actual construction in the palace was built by Sultan II. It started during the Abdulhamid Period (1876-1909) and was called Yıldız Palace-ı Hümayunu. During this period, the palace included places belonging to the private life of the sultan, as well as buildings allocated to officials, workshops such as repair shops and carpentry shops, and cultural and artistic structures such as theatres, museums and libraries. The palace has an inner garden known as Hasbahçe, which also has a pool that looks like a natural river. There are small resting pavilions built independently of each other in different parts of this garden. The palace buildings, which remained empty for a while after Sultan Vahdettin, were allocated to the Military Academy in 1924. The palace, which was left to the Military Academies in 1946, was transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 1978 and started to be turned into a museum in 1993 under the name of "Star Palace Museum Directorate".

Yıldız Sarayı

 



Source Türkiye Culture Portal History of Istanbul