Emirgan Pier ( tr, Emirgan İskelesi) is a historic passenger ferryboat pier located in

Emirgan Emirgan is a leafy, middle-class suburb of Istanbul, Turkey, on the western shore of the Bosphorus in the Sarıyer district north of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge (Second Bosphorus Bridge). The name commemorates a friendship that eventually turne ...

neighborhood of Sarıyer district in Istanbul Province, Turkey. It serves ferries in Istanbul running between

Çengelköy Çengelköy is a neighborhood in the Üsküdar district on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey, between the neighborhoods of Beylerbeyi and Kuleli. It is mainly a residential district. Many mansions were built there in th ...

and İstinye on

Bosphorus The Bosporus Strait (; grc, Βόσπορος ; tr, İstanbul Boğazı 'Istanbul strait', colloquially ''Boğaz'') or Bosphorus Strait is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul in northwestern Tu ...

. The pier went into service in 1851 as the most of the piers on Bosphorus. The pier, which as situated at that times in front of the

Emirgan Mosque Emirgan Mosque ( tr, Emirgan Cami), officially Emirgan Hamid-i Evvel Mosque ( ota, Emirgan Hamid-i Evvel Cami) is an 18th-century Ottoman Empire, Ottoman mosque located in the Emirgan neighborhood of the Sarıyer district in Istanbul, Turkey. The ...

, underwent an essential reparation in 1897. In 1900, a new pier was built a little bit south of it by the new owner of the ferryboat line, the Ottoman company "Şirket-i Hayriye", and the original pier was removed. Even though the pier was called sometimes "Mirgün Pier" and then "Uluköy Pier", it held its current name. The pier was closed down in March 1989, and demolished remaining inaccessible 12 years long during the widening works of the Bosphorus coastal street. After construction of a new pier building again in wood on piles that began in June 2001, it was reopened on November 24, 2001. Emirgan Pier is long. It is above sea level. The water depth at the site is .

References

Ferry piers in Istanbul 1851 establishments in the Ottoman Empire Transport infrastructure completed in 1851 Sarıyer Bosphorus Transport in Istanbul {{Water-transport-stub