Museum

Büyük Mabeyn Köşkü

📍 Beşiktaş, Istanbul

Büyük Mabeyn Köşkü is one of the Ottoman palace buildings tied to Dolmabahçe’s ceremonial world, and its name points to its original role: the mabeyn was the formal space between private life and state business. In the 19th century, that mattered a lot here, because the Ottoman court was reshaping itself around reception rooms, audience halls, and carefully staged protocol. The köşk sits in the Beşiktaş side of the old imperial waterfront, where the palace complex became one of Istanbul’s most important symbols of modernization under the late Ottoman sultans. …
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