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Beyazıt State Library (Turkish: Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi; formerly known as the Ottoman Public Library) is a book depositary and digital library in Istanbul. [2] One of Turkey's oldest libraries, it is the first national library of Ottoman manuscripts and one of the country's six legal deposit libraries.
The following is a list of libraries in Turkey. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism , there are 1,257 libraries as of 30 December 2022 in the country. The total seating capacity is 114,906 in a total indoor usage are of 399,732 m 2 (4,302,680 sq ft). [ 1 ]
Founded in March 1997 by the Ottoman Bank in collaboration with the History Foundation (Turkish: Tarih Vakfi), the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre (OBARC) operated in the former Head Office of the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul, Turkey from 1999 to 2010. Its projects included 400 conferences, symposia, workshops and exhibitions; as well as ...
The Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz (r. 1861–1876) was impressed by the archaeological museums in Paris (30 June – 10 July 1867), [3] London (12–23 July 1867) [3] and Vienna (28–30 July 1867) [3] which he visited in the summer of 1867, [3] and ordered a similar archaeological museum to be established in Istanbul.
Back side of the library. The Köprülü Library was the first example of an independent library structure in Istanbul. [5] It is located in a garden, whose three sides are surrounded by streets and is constructed with alternating stones and bricks. It is covered by a dome placed on an octagonal rim on the outside with a pendentive square plan.
In 1338 the Ottoman leader Orhan Gazi took Skoutarion, giving the Ottomans a base within sight of Constantinople for the first time. [5] In the Ottoman period Üsküdar was one of the three communities outside the city walls of Constantinople (along with Eyüp and Galata). The area was a major burial ground, and today many large cemeteries ...
The courtyard of the mosque is designed in the shape of a horseshoe, unprecedented in Ottoman mosques. [8] Interior of the prayer hall. The shapes of the arches and capitals are signs of the Ottoman Baroque style. The decoration and details of the mosque are firmly in the Ottoman Baroque style, which was new at the time.
In 1882 the former soup kitchen was converted into the State Library of Istanbul by Sultan Abdulhamid II; it now houses over 120,000 books and 7000 manuscripts. [citation needed] The former medrese now houses a small Museum of Turkish Calligraphy Art that has been closed to the public for more than a decade. In 2022 this was undergoing restoration.