Burhaniye is a

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in the municipality and district of

Üsküdar Üsküdar () is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 35 km2, and its population is 524,452 (2022). It is a large and densely populated district on the Anatolian (Asian) shore of the Bosphorus. It is border ...

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. Its population is 16,438 (2022). It is on the Asian side of

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. Burhaniye is mostly a residential neighborhood, with few historic houses and buildings. It is bordered on the north by

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and Küplüce, on the east by Kısıklı, on the south by Küçükçamlıca, and on the west by

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and

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. The

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highway runs along the western border of the neighborhood. The neighborhood was settled by refugees from the 1876

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and was first known as Muhacir Köyü (Refugee Village). The neighborhood takes its present name from the Burhaniye Mosque, built in 1902 by

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for his son Burhanettin Efendi. In addition to the Burhaniye Mosque, mosques in the neighborhood include Oğuzhan Mosque, Akabe Mosque, and Polis Evleri Mosque. Schools in the neighborhood include Burhaniye Elementary School, Nursen Fuat Özdayı Elementary School, and the Beylerbeyi Campus of SEV Private Elementary School. Other important neighborhood institutions include the Çamlıca German Hospital.

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. ''Alman Hastanesi, Çamlıca''. URL: Accessed 15 October 2010.

References

* "Çamlıca eteklerinin gözde mahallesi" (A favorite neighborhood at the foot of Çamlıca). ''Üsküdar: Üsküdar Belediyesi Aylık Haber Bulteni'', no. 7 (October 2010), pp. 14–15. URL

Accessed 15 October 2010. * * İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Greater Istanbul Municipality). ''İstanbul Şehir Rehberi'' (Istanbul City Guide). URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20100819124920/http://sehirrehberi.ibb.gov.tr/Map.aspx? Accessed 15 October 2010.

External links

* Üsküdar Belediyesi (Üsküdar Municipality). ''Burhaniye'' (map). URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20111006122903/http://www.uskudar.bel.tr/portal/rehber_/yenikrokiler/burhaniye.pdf Accessed 16 October 2010. Neighbourhoods of Üsküdar {{Istanbul-geo-stub