Old Palace

Eski Saray (Turkish for "Old Palace"), also known as Sarây-ı Atîk-i Âmire, was a palatial building in Constantinople under the Ottoman Empire in the Beyazıt neighborhood of the Fatih district, between the Süleymaniye Mosque and the Bayezid II Mosque.

Construction of the palace began shortly after the 1453 conquest and was completed in 1458. Historians of the period including Doukas and Michael Critobulus stated that it was completed in 1455.

Evliya Çelebi stated in his Seyahatnâme that the construction of the palace began in 1454 on the site of an old church and that the palace was surrounded by a solid rectangular wall covered with a blue lead that had a perimeter of 12,000 arşın, approximately equivalent to 9 kilometres (5.6 mi).

Texte adapté de « Eski Saray » de la Wikipédia en anglais, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Old Palace occupe la 1 096e place sur 5 793 au classement de renommée de cet atlas et le 25e rang des 120 que l’atlas recense en Turquie. Fondé en 1453, il est plus ancien que 53 % des monuments datés de l’atlas — l’un des 243 monuments de l’atlas fondés au XVe siècle. Voyez comment la Turquie se compare dans les statistiques des châteaux.

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