Museum

Ceremony Pavilion

📍 Beşiktaş, Istanbul

Ihlamur Kasrı, the “Ceremony Pavilion,” gives you a rare glimpse of Ottoman court life in the 19th century. Built during the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid I, it was one of the imperial family’s favourite places for leisure and ceremonial occasions, and its very name points to the lime trees that once shaped this part of the hillside. The pavilion belongs to the world of the Tanzimat period, when the Ottoman Empire was modernising in ways that affected everything from administration to taste, and this place reflects that shift in its architecture and purpose. Today it operates as a museum under Milli Saraylar, the national palaces administration, so the building’s imperial setting is preserved rather than left to memory. …
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