Places to eat are changing, too.
Café Vodina, an initiative by the NGO Balat Kültür Evi,
is entirely run and staffed by local women, and offers both cooking classes and
traditional Turkish plates.
--The Guardian
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Photographer Dilek Keles opened Karanlik Isler Atolyesi, a photography and film exhibition space.
--The Guardian
Kucuk
Mustafa Pasa Hamam, one of Istanbul’s oldest bathhouses, has been restored and
turned into a gallery.
Photographer Dilek Keles opened Karanlik Isler Atolyesi, a photography and film exhibition space.
--The Guardian
Monday, February 26, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Artists
and designers followed other residents back to the area.
One of these is Mine
Atalar of design studio Minush, which creates unusual handmade leather shoes
and handbags.
Another, contemporary glassmaker Yasemin Aslan Bakiri, runs a
gallery and workshops in a restored Byzantine mansion called Camhane
--The Guardian
Sunday, February 25, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
The same is happening just to the north in Balat, Istanbul’s Jewish quarter since the Byzantine era.
The same is happening just to the north in Balat, Istanbul’s Jewish quarter since the Byzantine era.
Many people left in the mid-20th century and many Ottoman homes
fell into disrepair.
And then, from 2003, the city and European Union
instituted a renovation programme for Balat and Fener, repairing many of the
dilapidated buildings.
--The Guardian
Saturday, February 24, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
But most of the area’s Greek families fled after the Cyprus dispute of the 1960s and 70s.
But most of the area’s Greek families fled after the Cyprus dispute of the 1960s and 70s.
“I lost all of my childhood friends,” Sari says.
“Now, people have started
coming back.”
--The Guardian
Friday, February 23, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
When Kenan
Sari was growing up here, all of his friends were Greek.
Fener is home to the
Greek Orthodox cathedral, and Fener Rum Lisesi, the world’s oldest Greek
school, founded in 1454.
--The Guardian
Thursday, February 22, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
--The Guardian
Kenan Sari
has seen these changes at first hand.
All his close relatives were born in the
160-year-old building where he now runs Café Fener, a hole-in-the-wall he
opened in 2013, where locals and travellers come to sip frothing Turkish coffee
and tap into the Wi-Fi.
--The Guardian
A CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO CIHANGIR - 15
Courtesy of Cornucopia, The Magazine for Connoisseurs of Turkey
The crowds
flowing from Taksim Square tend to sweep visitors onto İstiklâl Caddesi.
The
cars and kebab shops that line the top of Sıraselviler Caddesi, one street to
the left of the famous pedestrian thoroughfare, don’t exactly draw you in.
But
just out of sight is one of the most attractive parts of Istanbul.
After a
couple of minutes’ walk from Taksim, its arrival is heralded by a great
old-fashioned Istanbul patisserie,
Savoy. Across the street and down the stairs
is Otto, a fashionable café/bar in a shady tree-filled courtyard.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
This is why the quarter has become a cool hangout and a recognised design district.
--The Guardian
This is why the quarter has become a cool hangout and a recognised design district.
Tours of the area were a main event at the Istanbul Design Biennial.
--The Guardian
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Century-old Ottoman houses lean against each other in a kaleidoscope of reds, blues and greens. And art galleries and design shops dot the area along the water.
Century-old Ottoman houses lean against each other in a kaleidoscope of reds, blues and greens. And art galleries and design shops dot the area along the water.
Like the
rest of Istanbul, Fener-Balat is changing.
Unlike much of the rest of the city,
though, the changes don’t – yet – involve condominiums and shopping malls.
Nor
have rents skyrocketed as much as in other areas that have retained an Ottoman
flavour.
--The Guardian
Monday, February 19, 2018
FENER AND BALAT
Just two
miles north along the Golden Horn from Eminönü – the quarter known for Topkapi
Palace, tour groups and Hagia Sophia – lies another Istanbul altogether.
In the
side-by-side quarters of Fener and Balat, lines of drying laundry stretch
across steep, winding streets.
--The Guardian
Sunday, February 18, 2018
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BOSPHORUS CRUISE
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Tour boats
line up to take tourists and locals on magical tours of the Bosphorus.
Some take
short tours and turn around near the bridge by Ortakoy.
Some go all
the way to the mouth of the Black Sea.
The tours
are very inexpensive.
Friday, February 2, 2018
SÜLEYMANIYE MOSQUE
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
To the right (southeast) of the main entrance to Süleymaniye Mosque is the cemetery, home to the octagonal tombs of Süleyman and his wife Haseki Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana).
--Lonely Planet
To the right (southeast) of the main entrance to Süleymaniye Mosque is the cemetery, home to the octagonal tombs of Süleyman and his wife Haseki Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana).
The tile work surrounding the entrances to both is superb and the ivory-inlaid
panels in Süleyman's tomb are lovely.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
SÜLEYMANIYE MOSQUE
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
The main entrance to the Süleymaniye Mosque is accessed from Professor Sıddık Sami Onar Caddesi, formerly known as Tiryaki Çarşışı (Market of the Addicts).
The main entrance to the Süleymaniye Mosque is accessed from Professor Sıddık Sami Onar Caddesi, formerly known as Tiryaki Çarşışı (Market of the Addicts).
The
buildings here once housed three medreses and a primary school;
they're now home to the Süleymaniye Library and a raft of popular
streetside fasulye (bean) restaurants that used to be teahouses
selling opium (hence the street's former name).
On the corner of Professor
Sıddık Sami Onar Caddesi and Şifahane Sokak is the darüşşifa, also
under restoration.
The still-functioning Süleymaniye
Hamamı is on the eastern side of the mosque.
--Lonely Planet