
Tophane-i Âmire
Also known as Tophane-i Amire
1803
building
This great vaulted hall at Tophane was the imperial cannon foundry of the Ottoman Empire, and it gave the whole district its name, which means cannon house. Mehmed II established a foundry here soon after the conquest of 1453, and the…
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