VID_20200103_162503_00_038 – strazi langa hotel
Located in Gedikpaşa , Istanbul , Fatih District , surrounded by Emin Sinan, Küçük Ayasofya, Kadırga, Şahsuvar, Muhsine Hatun, Nişanca, Mimar Kemalettin and Beyazıt neighborhoods and within the boundaries of the Architect Hayrettin District.
Its name, II. The grand vizier of the time of Mehmed (Fatih) ( 1451 – 1481 ) and the captain-i was taken from the double bath built by Gedik Ahmed Pasha (d. 1482 ). The mosque and madrasah named in the sources and of the same name have not survived until today.
The Gedikpaşa district is located just north of the famous Kadırga Port of Byzantium . As it is understood from the Byzantine ruins in the area, the district has been built since ancient times. It is known that Gedikpaşa was one of the oldest Ottoman settlements in the city after the conquest of Istanbul . In the 15th and 16th centuries, most of the people of the district were Greeks and Armenians . According to some sources, after Fatih conquered Istanbul , he had placed the Armenians he brought from Bursa in different parts of the city, in the meantime, in the Gedikpaşa region in order to prevent a possible Greek uprising . Some historians, on the other hand, occurred in Anatolia in the 17th century.They claim that the Armenians who fled from the Celali Rebellions and immigrated to Istanbul were settled in these districts. Surp Asdvadzadzin Patriarchate Church, just near Gedikpaşa, was one of the old Byzantine churches allocated to the Armenians after the conquest.
Gedikpaşa, a settlement consisting of wooden houses in adjacent order like many parts of Istanbul in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, witnessed big fires. The Gedikpaşa region, where the population density is high, has become a culturally vibrant region thanks to the Gedikpaşa Theater , where actors of Turkish origin come to the stage in Istanbul ; The street where this theater, which was built in 1859, is known as Theater Street after the Declaration of the Republic .
In the Gedikpaşa district, which hosted a considerable Armenian community during the Ottoman period, the Armenian population, which had grown well during the First World War , started to decrease rapidly after 1922 ; In the 1970s, only 300 households remained from the Armenian community, some of which were in Beyoğlu and some were abroad. After the 1980s, the houses in the Gedikpaşa district gradually left their places to workplaces. Even the Mesropian School (stone building) next to the Surp Ohannes Armenian church (an old Greek church), which is parallel to Gedikpaşa street, has been turned into a lender’s inn. The cobbler concentrated hereThe number of manufacturers and workplaces that provided materials to the industry was thousands. Although this business line, which was under the monopoly of Greek and Armenian masters until the 1960s, gradually passed to the Turks, most of the terms related to shoemaking remain from these languages.
Gedikpaşa Street, which is one of the important streets of the Gedikpaşa district, passes through the middle of the Architect Hayrettin Mahallesi and connects to Kadırga Limanı Street. A number of offices and hotels are lined up on this quite steep hill. At the end of the street, there is the Ayios Kiryakos Greek Orthodox Church. An old Osmanli fountain (where Hamidiye water was once drunk), which is located at the corner where the intersection of the Saray Street cut the Kadirga Hamami street, is completely dry today.
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