List of museums and monuments in Istanbul information
This list of museums and monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, includes the relevant architectural entities within Istanbul's city limits.
(in alphabetical order; Turkish-language name in parentheses where appropriate)
Castles and palaces
Anadoluhisarı
Beylerbeyi Palace
Boukoleon Palace
Dolmabahçe Palace
Great Palace of Constantinople
Küçüksu Pavilion
Palace of the Porphyrogenitus (Tekfur Sarayı)
Rumelihisarı
Tekfur Palace (Tekfur Sarayı) (see Palace of the Porphyrogenitus)
Topkapı Palace
Yıldız Palace
Monuments
Aviation Martyrs' Monument
Column of Constantine (also known as the Burnt Column) (Çemberlitaş sütunu)
Column of the Goths (Gotlar Sütunu)
Column of Marcian (Kıztaşı, meaning "column of the girl")
Milion, a mile-marker monument used for measuring the distances between the city (when known as Constantinople) and other cities of the Byzantine Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)
Monument of Liberty
Republic Monument
Serpent Column
Museums
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library
Doğançay Museum, contemporary-art museum
Galatasaray Museum
Great Palace Mosaic Museum (Büyük Saray Mozaikleri Müzesi)
Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri)
Istanbul Aviation Museum (İstanbul Havacılık Müzesi)
Istanbul Military Museum (İstanbul Askeri Müze)
Istanbul Modern Art Museum (İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi)
Istanbul Naval Museum (İstanbul Deniz Müzesi)
Istanbul Postal Museum (PTT İstanbul Müzesi)
İstanbul State Art and Sculpture Museum (İstanbul Devlet Resim ve Heykel Müzesi)
Istanbul Toy Museum (İstanbul Oyuncak Müzesi)
Istanbul UFO Museum (İstanbul UFO Müzesi)
Istanbul Zoology Museum
Museum of the Ancient Orient (see Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri))
Museum of Classical Ottoman (Divan) Literature
Museum of Illumination and Heating Appliances (Aydınlatma ve Isıtma Araçları Müzesi)
The Museum of Innocence (Masumiyet Müzesi)
Museum of Islamic Art (see Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri))
Panorama 1453 History Museum
Pera Museum
Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art
Rahmi M Koç Museum
Rezan Has Museum
Sadberk Hanım Museum
Sakıp Sabancı Museum
SALT
SantralIstanbul (includes the SantralIstanbul Museum of Energy and a modern-art museum)
TGC Press Media Museum (Basın Müzesi)
Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi)
Religious buildings
Arap Mosque (Dominican Church of St. Paul)
Blue Mosque (popular name for the Sultan Ahmed Mosque)
Bodrum Mosque (Myrelaion)
Bulgarian St. Stephen Church (also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church) (Sveti Stefan Kilisesi)
Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (also known as the St. Esprit Cathedral)
Chora Church (Kariye Müzesi, Kariye Camii or Kariye Kilisesi — the Chora Museum, Mosque or Church, respectively)
Fatih Mosque
Fenari Isa Mosque (Theotokos tou Libos)
Fethiye Museum (see Pammakaristos Church)
Hagia Irene (Aya İrini)
Hagia Sophia
Kalenderhane Mosque (Theotokos Kyriotissa)
Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex
Little Hagia Sophia (Ss. Sergius and Bacchus Church)
Monastery of Stoudios
Mosque of the Stablemaster (İmrahor Camii) (see Monastery of Stoudios)
Ortaköy Mosque
Pammakaristos Church
Rüstem Pasha Mosque
St. Esprit Cathedral (see Cathedral of the Holy Spirit)
Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque (Sokollu Pasa Camii)
Süleymaniye Mosque
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (popularly known as the Blue Mosque)
Zeyrek Mosque (Church of Christos Pantokrator)
Others
Galata Mevlevihanesi (Galata Convent of the Whirling Dervishes)
Galata Tower
The Gate of Galatasaray High School
Hippodrome of Constantinople
Walls of Constantinople
Yedikule (Seven Towers) Castle
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