Atlas Cinema
The Atlas Cinema ( tr, Atlas Sineması) is a movie theatre situated at İstiklal Avenue in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey. It opened in 1948. Between 2019 and 2021, it underwent a restoration. Background Agop Köçeyan (1823–1893), also known as Köçeoğlu, was a member of a Economic history of the Ottoman Empire#Finance, Galata banker family of Armenian ethnicity. The family had made a fortune by lending loans they received with low interest, from abroad, to the State organisation of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Government and to the Ottoman dynasty, Ottoman palace at high interest. He was one of the prominent owners of real estate in different parts of Istanbul. Following the Great Fire of Pera (Beyoğlu), Pera in 1870, he purchased land in Galatasaray, Beyoğlu, Galatasaray quarter, and built a winter residence in 1877. It was designed in Renaissance Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architectural style resembling Villa Farnese in Italy; the building cons ...
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İstiklal Avenue
İstiklal Avenue ( tr, İstiklal Caddesi; en, "Independence Avenue"), historically known as the Grand Avenue of Pera ( Ottoman Turkish: ''Cadde-i Kebir''; el, Μεγάλη Οδός του Πέραν, Megali Odos tu Peran; french: Grande Rue de Péra) is one of the most famous avenues in Istanbul, Turkey, visited by nearly 3 million people in a single day over the course of weekends. Located in the historic Beyoğlu (Pera) district, it is an elegant pedestrian street, long, which houses boutiques, music stores, bookstores, art galleries, cinemas, theatres, libraries, cafés, pubs, nightclubs with live music, historical patisseries, chocolateries and restaurants. The avenue, surrounded by late Ottoman era buildings (mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries) that were designed with the Neo-Classical, Neo-Gothic, Renaissance Revival, Beaux-Arts, Art Nouveau and First Turkish National Architecture styles; as well as a few Art Deco style buildings from the early years ...
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