A world famous inn… an inn with one of the most beautiful views of Istanbul and a fragrant history.it's a place I'm proud to be a part of. it is between çakmakcılar Declivity and cupancılar declivity in mahmutpaşa. i built this building, which is one of the largest inns in Istanbul, which is reciprocal with the big new inn. the wife of Ahmed (1603-1617), iv. kösem mahpeyker sultan, the mother of murad (1623- 1640) and sultan Ibrahim (1640-1648), had it built to flow into the tiled complex in Üsküdar, which he also had commissioned. evliya çelebi mentions this magnificent structure in his travelogue as follows: “there was a palace of surgeon Mehmet pasha on the site of this inn before, because it was destroyed over time, kösem valide built a three-hundred-höcreli şeddadi khan with a lower top, which is why there is no bigger khan in Istanbul than mahmud pasha khan. on one side there is a cihannuma tower at the four corners, which Eflake took ser. he has a camel and a stable that buys a thousand horses and mules. there is a mosque sheriff in the middle.” 12 x 12 m to the north-east of the courtyard of the “khan-ı sağir”(=small khan) section of the inn, which collapsed in 1926. there is a tower measuring. This tower, which has a dome with a slice inside called the "cihannuma tower", belongs to the cerrahpasa palace. it can be thought that this tower, which has the character of a byzantine structure, was left over from a byzantine work that was built on the cerrahp pasha palace reported by Evliya çelebi. hüseyin ayvansarayi, who is an important source about Istanbul mosques, mentions the small mosque in the courtyard as follows in his work "hadikatü'l-jawami: “ the khan-i kebir city, which is called the vaki valide inn in Istanbul, is one of the foundations of this mosque and is the work of the sultan musharunileyhan of the mosque, which is located in the inn.” (=there is a mosque in this inn, which is known as the valide inn in Istanbul, again commissioned by the sultan) it is also a legend that kösem sultan hid his wealth in a room of this inn and that this wealth was looted after his bride mehmed IV was strangled and killed with a curtain rope in his room on the night of September 2-3, 1651 by turhan hatice sultan, his wife, uzun süleyman ağa and a few rooms. in the history of naima, valde mentions the sultan's wealth as follows: “...twenty wrapped filories (gold florins) were found in the ol inn,they even took the moment to miriye. this inn with three courtyards is 98x168 m.lik has an area of. this inn, which is made of two parts as a large and small inn, does not show a geometric layout because the plan of this inn is adapted to the land where it is located. the main entrance of the big inn called ”han-ı kebir" is on the side of the çakmakçiler slope, which is a very inclined road. there are seven three-stage exits sitting on consoles above this entrance, which is made of uniformly cut stone. a stone fringe erasure runs around this facade from the top. from the entrance, a small triangular courtyard with a recessed arched, cradle vaulted passage and a square-planned space surrounded by porticos 63 x 66 m from there. a large courtyard of its size is passed through. the rooms behind the round arched porticoes surrounding the courtyard open to the courtyard with round stone arched doors. there are also rectangular and stone jamb windows next to the doors of those on the second floor. although a series of windows can also be seen on the exterior, they have been very degraded until today and have almost lost their character. although stone stairs used to go up to the upper floors from both sides of the courtyard, these stairs have completely changed today. behind the porticoes, there are shops with a row of pointed arches on the facade facing the road. the small inn, facing the side of the cupancılar slope and called “han-ı sağir”, has a uniform rectangular plan. this section, which was demolished on March 21, 1926, is 15 x 56 m. there are porticoes surrounding a rectangular courtyard in size, and behind them there are rooms opening to the porticoes with pointed arched doors. it is likely that the stables mentioned by evliya çelebi are located in the basement of the courtyard here. the separation of the section where the animals are housed and the seating areas from each other in a very precise way, as seen in this inn, is a plan that has been tried for the first time in Turkish inn architecture. the third section, facing çakmakçılar street and having a triangular courtyard, is quite small. there is a passage from this courtyard to the büyük han and its courtyard. the upper floor is reached by a staircase under the portico to the left of the entrance on the side facing the road. the ground and upper floor spaces of this triangular-shaped courtyard are made in a square or rectangular shape due to the necessity of complying with the slope and edge of the road. on the side of the ground floor facing the road, a row of shops is lined up. the grand valide inn had a total of 210 rooms, including a total of 153 in the first and second courtyard and 57 in the third courtyard. after the death of kösem Sultan, most of the inn was left to the treasury, and after the republic, some rooms were transferred to foundations. the chief directorate of foundations sold some of these rooms in the 1940s. due to the disrepair of the inn, the large number of owners and the fact that it has passed from hand to hand through inheritance for many years, it has had as many as 126 shareholders. at the beginning of the century, Iranians mostly lived in bachelor rooms here. it is the printing house of the Iranians in this inn, where the Holy Quran was first printed in Istanbul. in fact, when a fatwa could not be obtained from sheikhulislam for the printing of this Qur'an, it was secretly printed here in the 1870s. on August 19, 1906, part of it collapsed, and in 1931, the rooms were evacuated by the governor's office, which decided that the inn could not be used as a residence.

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Marta

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At the entrance to the arch, costume sellers illegally demand an entrance fee of 500 lire. The tourist police did not want to deal with this issue, giving Anna the right to do it herself. It is a pity that I could not visit this place.

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ALI POLAT

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A rare inn, the mosque inside is awesome

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