LOCATION
We're in the center of the city.
we're easy to find, hard to leave.
Our hotel, which is located in the heart of Istanbul in Eyüpsultan, is very close to everywhere with its location right in the city center.
Istanbul Airport 36 km
Sabiha Gokcen Airport 47 km
Taksim square 8 km
Blue Mosque 8.1 km
Hagia Sophia 8.1 km
Halic Congress Center 2.2 km
Pierre Loti Hill 1 km
Istanbul congress center is 8 km.
With its connection to E-5 and TEM highways, it provides easy access to the important business, entertainment and touristic centers of Istanbul.
CONTACT US
Ä°slambey Mh, Dipçik Sk, No:9 34050 Eyüpsultan, Ä°stanbul - Türkiye info@theeleganthotel.com.tr | Phone: +90 212 615 66 60
EYÃœP SULTAN HISTORY
01
Eyup Sultan in the Byzantine period
Constantinapolis, which was declared the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire in 395 AD, became an important city due to its population and the roles it assumed in the 5th century. During this period, the first generation walls (Septimus - Severus Walls) were exceeded and the city spread to the west and was based on the Theodosios Walls. During this development period, two main axes (Oak Road) emerged from the old core of the city, leading to the important entrance gates of the land walls. The Victory Road, which is parallel to the Marmara Sea shores, is an important and symbolic artery including the monumental ceremony gate where the emperor entered the city in Istanbul, the capital of the Mediterranean Basin in the 6th century. The axis that goes out of the city wall by combining the hills forming the interesting topography of Istanbul from the north becomes more important in this bet in order to explain Eyüpsultan's relations with this old world city.
The 6th and 7th centuries are the period when Constantinapolis started developing relations with the Sycae trade colony and off-the-wall north of the Golden Horn. In Ayvansaray, just outside the walls, in the 6th century, the great church dedicated to Mary was built in the time of Justinianos. In the same period, there is a monastery dedicated to the names of Saint Kosmos and Damianos in Eyüpsultan. Kydaro (today's Alibey) and Barbyzes (today's Kağıthane) streams flow into the Golden Horn where the land where Eyüpsultan, where today's Eyüpsultan was founded, descends into a water on a steep slope. It was called Kosmidion (Green) because of the monastery founded in Theodosios time and the appearance of the environment. The settlement was formed around this site. Establishment Ä°.S. The settlement dating back to the middle of the 5th century was recognized as a sacred healing center due to the religious buildings in the vicinity. During this period, the area where Eyüpsultan was located was used as a hunting ground and a resort by the emperors, as it was covered with a rich and dense vegetation and hunting animals in the surrounding forests.
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Eyup Sultan in the Ottoman period
15th and 16th Centuries
Ottoman cities, like ancient Greek and Roman cities, were formed around a core that was planned and included places of worship, administration and trade. Istanbul, which joined the Ottoman lands in 1453, gained the vitality that the Byzantine lost in the late periods of the empire under the expanding lands and the settlement policies implemented by the Ottoman Empire. In this period, Istanbul was organized to become a world city that symbolized the power of the state and could bear all the burden of the empire.
This organization is reflected in the physical space both in Suriçi and on both sides of the Golden Horn with its management, service production (production and distribution of craft products) and production of war economy products (armory, gunpowder, shipyard, etc.) in the capital: Saray, Bedesten and In this period, the first industrial facilities such as the Grand Bazaar in the vicinity, the traps around the port in Haliç and the Tophane in the north of the Golden Horn and the shipyard in KasımpaÅŸa emerged during this period. The population taking part in this administrative and economic organization was settled in Suriçi and in the immediate vicinity of these facilities. The manifestation of this settlement is the Sultan mosques and complexes established on the sacred axis starting from the focus of the Byzantine city where Hagia Sophia is located and heading to the northwest.
In this context, the role of Eyüpsultan Hz during the conquest. It starts with the discovery of the grave believed to belong to Abu Eyyub (Eyüpsultan), one of the companions of Muhammad. The tomb, built by Fatih, was built on this tomb, and the first sultan mosque and complex (madrasah, library, imaret, double bath) were built in Istanbul. This complex was the core of today's Eyüpsultan settlement, the settlement was settled with the settlement of immigrants and nomads coming from Bursa, and the agricultural areas and pastures used here were used to meet the nutritional needs of the crowded population of Istanbul.
17th and 18th Centuries
The population growth, which was controlled by the ban on leaving the land of the reaya until the end of the 16th century, was significantly migrated due to the rebellion and similar disturbances in Anatolia during this period. The unrest in Anatolia during the 17th century, in Rumelia in the 18th century and the beginning of land losses in Europe and Crimea in the same period increased this migration and caused the densification of residential areas.
Neighborhoods where the population is dense are located along the Golden Horn. These are mostly the neighborhoods where Greeks and Jews are located in the north of the Beyazıt-Edirnekapı line, and the neighborhoods where merchants and members of the scholarship class are located to the south of the same line, the neighborhoods between the Hippodrome and Aksaray - Yenikapı where the middle class families, tradesmen and artisans settled, and the property class between Samatya and Yedikule. and the districts where Jews are settled and differ according to their ethnic or religious roots.
Those who migrated from Anatolia settled in the outer neighborhoods, near the city walls, in the regions of the city that have not yet been settled, and continued their lives with the help of foundation organizations. The influence of Eyüpsultan from these facts is related to the fact that single men who came out of Anatolia in the 18th century, those who left the Janissary and even families filled Istanbul. This phenomenon has increased the number of marginals in the city that have defined their livelihoods and do not provide legal means, therefore, the first signs of large poverty nests experienced by singles in business districts and slums in Eyüpsultan, KasımpaÅŸa and Üsküdar have started to be seen. As a result of the fires that destroyed most of the districts in Suriçi, the residents' choice of location outside the city should have a role in this.
As it is known, between the years 1718-1730 was described as the Tulip Period in our history. Most of the buildings of this period are outside of the city center, in Kağıthane or BoÄŸaziçi. In this period when cultural events intensified, with the effect of the outward growth of the city, it became famous with the Kagithane and Eyüpsultan tribes where the Golden Horn ends and the beach palaces where they end on the shore.
03
Republic period Eyup Sultan
Eyüpsultan in the 19th Century and the First Period of the Republic
The reform movements that started in the 18th century and the influence of the West, which progressed in science, art, enriched with colonization and industrialization and made it felt all over the world, also directed the formation of Istanbul significantly.
The administrative function of the palace is located outside BeÅŸiktaÅŸ on the ridges, in Yıldız and BeÅŸiktaÅŸ beaches. Galata-Pera's connection to Suriçi with bridges, the development of a new center around the embassies of non-Muslim countries in Pera, the prestige residential areas heading towards BeyoÄŸlu and the Bosphorus shores can be counted in this influence. Moving the non-Muslim population to the north of the Golden Horn, the emergence of a western entertainment center in BeyoÄŸlu, the modern military barracks on the Anatolian side and west of Eyüpsultan on the European side, the development in the Bosphorus villages and the Marmara coasts. locations, Sirkeci Station and HaydarpaÅŸa Station-Port facilities have brought the distinction of different functional areas of the city, and at the same time, there is a need to establish transportation systems and transportation lines between these different functional areas.
Mass transportation by sea between the two sides of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, tram lines in Suriçi, BeyoÄŸlu and Kadıköy - Üsküdar, and the railway lines parallel to the Marmara shores in the BeyoÄŸlu Side were put into service in this period. Transportation with wheeled vehicles has also been effective in the pre-formed urban areas in terms of shaping the space, the burning urban areas have been planned with a grid system that offers different road and property texture than traditional texture 'and restructured with masonry buildings.
Among the detailed depictions published on the life of Istanbul residents in the 19th century, the shortest way to go from Istanbul to Eyüpsultan started at the gate of Ayvansaray, where a row of graveyards and the rose market where flowers grown in the nearby flower gardens were sold were encountered, and then the first building that attracted attention was Shah Sultan. It is understood that there was a mausoleum, there is the Metruk Palace of Esma Sultan right across it, and that there are many neglected, semi-ruined graves in the future where the great ulema sheikh and the state official lie.
Established in 1880 on a hill overlooking the Golden Horn and its surroundings on behalf of the French Pierre Lotti, the coffee gained a different place in the recognition and visiting of Eyüpsultan by foreigners.
In this period, the real development related to Eyüpsultan emerged in its immediate vicinity. Sultan II. The Rami Barracks (1829), which was established during Mahmut's efforts to renew the army, and TaÅŸlıtarla, where immigrants from the Balkan Wars settled there, became the centers of interest for the next developments. The introduction of railroad to Sirkeci, the establishment of the country's first power plant in SilahtaraÄŸa, the concentration of Feshane, Ä°plikhane, Defderdar Wool Factory and other industrial and storage structures in Haliç revealed the settlement pattern of industrial employees in KasımpaÅŸa, Hasköy and Eyüpsultan. Western experts from different countries developed plans and suggestions for Istanbul in the planning of cities in the first period of the republic, but they all saw the Golden Horn as an industrial area. With the Prost Plan (1936), which was widely implemented, the establishment of industrial zones on the shores of the Golden Horn and Topkapı in the 1950s, as well as the settlement of the Balkan settlers in Eyüpsultan with the placement of Balkan migrants in the district of Rami in the 1940s, It entered and grew to the northwest along the Golden Horn coast. In this period when sacred relics were also transferred to Topkapı Palace for security reasons, Eyüpsultan is no longer a visitor, a cruise and a promenade, but a suburb consisting of workshops, worker districts, middle class residences and cemeteries.