Beylerbeyi Palace

The Beylerbeyi Palace was considered as a state guest house where the Ottoman sultans and foreign state president or rulers were hosted and were built at the request of the sultan of the era Sultan Abdulaziz (1861-1876). The construction of the palace started on 6 August 1863 and was officially opened on Friday, April 21, 1865 at a ceremony. The construction organization of the palace was carried out by Serkiz Bey (Balyan). Mehmed Efendi, Mahmud Efendi and Rıfat Efendi were the tasks of the Beylerbeyi Palace, which can also be called the responsibility of the financial and administrative affairs. It is determined that the Palace cost approximately 500 thousand Ottoman lira.

Beylerbeyi Palace, which is the main structure of the structures community, is a two -storey and masonry structure on a high basement. Built on an area of ​​approximately 2,500 square meters, the building sits on a rectangular floor area. The southern part of the palace was organized as Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn and the northern part was organized as the Valide Sultan Chamber. There are 6 halls, 24 rooms, 1 bath and 1 hamam on both floors. The Beylerbeyi Palace, which was built with the mixing of Western and Eastern styles, has the characteristics of the Turkish House with the Harem and Mabeyn departments. The roof of the structure is hidden by a railing that hides all the edges of the facade from the top. The plan of the palace has a plan composition based on the Eyvan Central Sofa (Hol) motif. The scheme in Beylerbeyi Palace consists of three parts. These sections; Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn is the Bed Office (Hünkâr apartment) and the Valide Sultan Office. The main harem section of the female efends and icbals, which came immediately after the Valide Sultan Chamber and built parallel to the sea, was built separately from the main structure; This structure has not survived. The entrance facade of Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn shows an arrangement in which the neo-barok emphasis is more pronounced. The interior arrangements, such as the mass and facade of the palace, are also shaped with an elective understanding.

Due to the Sultan Abdulaziz’s passion for the sea, who built the Beylerbeyi Palace, the sea and ship themes were processed in some frames and cartridges on the ceilings of the palace; In fact, Sultan Abdulaziz drew patterns containing sea and ship themes to give ideas to the painters.

Beylerbeyi Palace in History

Beylerbeyi Palace was used as a summer palace by Bânisi Sultan Abdulaziz (1861-1876). Palace, Sultan Abdulaziz and II. With the fact that Abdulhamid began to be allocated to them during the official visits of foreign state rulers or presidents during the reign, the state gained the function of a guest house.

The first important guest in the Beylerbeyi Palace was Eugénie, the French Empress. This trip by the Empress took place in the return office of Sultan Abdulaziz's 1867 French trip. Other foreign guests hosted in the Beylerbeyi Palace during the reign of Sultan Abdulaziz, the Austria-Hungarian Emperor Joseph (1869), Prussia Crown Prince Frédéric Guillaume Nicolaume Nicola Charles (1869), Italy's Circular (1869), Iran Shah Nasireddin (18 August 1873).

Sultan II. During the reign of Abdulhamid (1876-1909), the Beylerbeyi Palace, during the 33-year reign, also served as a museum, especially by the foreign state protocol. During this period, Dolmabahçe Palace and Topkapı Palace Treasury with Beylerbeyi Palace were used as the reign museums that could be visited on condition that the sultan was obtained. Sultan II. Immediately after Abdulhamid was dethroned, he was subjected to a forced residence at the Alatini Pavilion of Thessaloniki, but was transferred to Istanbul because of the eruption of the Balkan War about 3 years later. II. The new compulsory residence chosen for Abdulhamid was the Beylerbeyi Palace. The Former Hakan spent the last 6 years of his life in this palace and on February 10, 1918, he closed his eyes in this palace.