Nişantaşı

Coordinates: 41°03′06″N 28°59′29″E / 41.05167°N 28.99139°E / 41.05167; 28.99139
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For the village, see Nişantaşı, Şenkaya.
Nişantaşı
Quarter
District
Şişli
Time zoneGMT +2
Area code(+90) 212

Nişantaşı is a residential quarter in the

night clubs.[1] Many of the streets are still full of fine 19th and early 20th-century apartment blocks. Directly to the south lies the large and wooded Maçka Park, and to the east the Beşiktaş
district.

Nişantaşı provides the backdrop for several novels by

Greenwich Village, Manhattan.[2]

The nearest metro stop to the central part of the Nişantaşı quarter is the Osmanbey metro station on the M2 line. Many bus and dolmuş services plough up and down Halaskargazi Avenue, linking Nişantaşı to Taksim and Mecidiyeköy. It's also quite easy to reach the ferries by foot in Beşiktaş shore.

History

Sütçüoğlu Apartment
Vedat Tek House

In the middle of the 19th century, Nişantaşı was established by

Ottoman Turkish
).

The word Nişantaşı (nişan taşı) means "target stone" or more precisely "aiming stone" in Turkish. Target (aiming) stones were erected in the Ottoman period to mark the records of Ottoman archers, including sultans. Shaped either as small obelisks or columns with Ottoman Turkish inscriptions on them, some of these target stones still serve as monuments to Nişantaşı's past, their inscriptions recording when a particular arrow was shot and by whom, as well as recording the distance it flew.[3]

Following the

Levantine
communities.

In 1923 many

Greek-Turkish population exchange. Arriving in Nişantaşı, they started to live in the abandoned Greek houses and apartment flats. A few of their descendants still live in Nişantaşı, where they are a tightly knit community.[citation needed
]

Attractions

Vakko Store on Abdi İpekçi Street

On Vali Konağı Avenue stands the house of Turkish architect Vedat Tek, designed and built by himself in 1913–14. Its facade displays many of the features of the First National Architecture style, with which he was associated, including thick lancet windows, tiled panels and protruding Seljuk style stone roundels.

Built in 1853 on the site of an older mosque, the elegant

Salonica (now Thessaloniki) during the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. The founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun
's funeral was held here in 2006. Two target (aiming) stones (nişan taşı) for archery, dating back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries, stand inside the mosque's courtyard. There are numerous other aiming stones within the quarter; one of the most renowned examples, named Anıt Taş and shaped as a small obelisk, is located at the corner between Teşvikiye Avenue and Vali Konağı Avenue.

In 1979,

fashion designer
).

The Park Hyatt Hotel is housed in the Maçka Palas building which started life as an apartment block designed by Giulio Mongeri in 1922. In different periods, it was inhabited by the third Turkish president Celâl Bayar, the poet and politician Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan and Turgay Şeren, a goalkeeper for the Galatasaray football team.

Educational Facilities

Maçka Technical High School (Maçka Teknik Lisesi) was originally designed by

embassy in Istanbul.[4] However, when Ankara became Turkey's new capital in 1923, it was donated to the Turkish Republic. Construction works were not completed until 1970, when it was turned into a technical high school.[4]

There are three public primary schools on Nişantaşı Avenue (Nilüfer Hatun Primary School, Sait Çiftçi Primary School, and Maçka Primary School) and two public high schools (Rüştü Uzel High School, Nuri Akın High School).

The prestigious Feyziye Mektepleri Vakfı Işık Okulları (Feyziye Schools Foundation Işık Private Schools) is a private school incorporating a

Republic of Turkey
, was a student of the Şemsi Efendi Primary School.)

Several faculty buildings of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and Marmara University are also located here. The ITU is housed in what was once the Maçka Barracks designed by members of the Balyan family of architects.

Gallery

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nişantaşı.

References

  1. ^ Paçalıoğlu, Yasemin Çelebi (2021-10-15). "Off the beaten path: Nişantaşı through the eyes of an Istanbul local". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  2. ISBN 978-0-00-829404-5
    .
  3. ^ Tirendaz.com: Menzil Okçuluğu
  4. ^ a b Emporis: Maçka Technical High School
  5. ^ Emporis: Maçka Palas

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