Harbiye is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

Şişli Şişli () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 10 km2, and its population is 276,528 (2022). Located on the European side of the city, it is bordered by Beşiktaş ...

Istanbul Province Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. Its population is 2,157 (2022). The neighbourhood takes its name from the ''Mekteb-i Harbiye'' ( Ottoman War Academy) that functioned here for many years, albeit with intervals, in the 19th and 20th centuries. Harbiye is separated from

Kurtuluş Kurtuluş is a neighbourhood of the Şişli district of Istanbul that was originally called ''Tatavla,'' meaning 'stables' in Greek (). The modern Turkish name means "liberation", "salvation", "independence" or "deliverance". On 13 April 1929, si ...

to the west by busy Cumhuriyet Caddesi (Independence Street). To its north are the upmarket neighbourhoods of

Nişantaşı Nişantaşı is a residential quarter in the Şişli district on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey. Nişantaşı quarter has four neighbourhoods: Teşvikiye, Maçka, Osmanbey and Pangaltı. The centre of the Nişantaşı quarter is at the ...

and

Teşvikiye Teşvikiye is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Şişli, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 11,274 (2022). It is one of the four neighbourhoods (together with Maçka, Osmanbey and Pangaltı) within the Nişantaşı quar ...

, while to its east is leafy

Maçka Maçka (, the "club"; Laz language, Laz: მაჩხა ''Maçxa'') is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Trabzon Province, Turkey. Its area is 925 km2, and its population is 24,709 (2022). The name derives from the medieval ...

. To its south are the heavily built-up Elmadağ and Taksim neighbourhoods. The nearest Metro station to Harbiye is

Osmanbey Osmanbey is one of the four neighbourhoods (together with Teşvikiye, Maçka and Pangaltı) within the Nişantaşı quarter of the Şişli district in Istanbul, Turkey. Osmanbey is also home to the Beth Israel Synagogue built in 1940.The transf ...

on the M2 line but many buses and dolmuşes plough up and down Cumhuriyet Caddesi.

Attractions

Harbiye's most important tourist attraction is the

Military Museum A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs ...

(Askeri Müzesi) which is housed in the buildings of the old ''Mekteb-i Harbiye'' ( Ottoman War Academy. It contains a fine collection of embroidered Ottoman war tents and paintings by the war artist Hasan Rıza Bey. It also preserves a classroom where Atatürk studied from 1899 to 1905. It is housed in a mid-19th century building that replaces a slightly earlier one, lost to fire. It opened to the public in 1993. The 19th-century French girls school, the

Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul () is a French private high school located in the Harbiye, Şişli neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded in 1856. The high school was established in the Ottoman Empire as a missionary school for gir ...

, stands on the western side of Cumhuriyet Caddesi. Inside the grounds are the Church of St Espirit, designed by Giuseppe Fossati in 1846 and a statue of

Pope Benedict XV Pope Benedict XV (; ; born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, ; 21 November 1854 – 22 January 1922) was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I a ...

. The

Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus The Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus () is a five-star hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it opened in 1955 as the Istanbul Hilton and is the longest operating Hilton Hotel outside the United States. Project On Decemb ...

, Turkey's first five-star hotel, designed in 1955 by Sedad Hakki Eldem, is on the eastern side of Cumhuriyet Caddesi, surrounded by extensive grounds, a precious commodity in such a built-up part of town. The Istanbul Radio House is on the eastern side of the road on the site of a lost Armenian cemetery. The Architecture Department of the

Istanbul Technical University Istanbul Technical University, also known as Technical University of Istanbul (, commonly referred to as İTÜ), is an public university, public technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical university ...

(İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi) is housed in what was originally the Taskısla (Stone Barracks) building designed by British architect William James Smith between 1846 and 1852 There are a number of cultural institutions in Harbiye including the

Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage () is a theatre venue in the Harbiye neighborhood of Şişli district in Istanbul, Turkey. It is owned by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and operated by its City Theatres (''Şehir Tiyatroları'') division. Th ...

, the

Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall The Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall () is a concert hall located in the Harbiye neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It is one of the country's major concert halls, being the first one designed for classical music. Named after the Turkish composer C ...

, the Istanbul Congress Center and the

Cemil Topuzlu Open-Air Theatre The Cemil Topuzlu Open-Air Theatre (, also called simply ''Açıkhava Tiyatrosu'') is a contemporary amphitheatre located at Harbiye neighborhood of Şişli district in Istanbul, Turkey. It is situated across from the Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar C ...

. Most of Macka Park a large and very popular inner-city green space where concerts and festivals are held in summer, lies within the Harbiye area.

Gallery

File:Askeri muze Istanbul.jpg, alt=Istanbul Military Museum, Maçka Kışlası (Barracks), now part of Istanbul Technical University File:LycéeNotreDameDeSionIstanbul.JPG,

File:İstanbul radio1.JPG, Istanbul Radio House File:Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage.JPG,

File:Istanbul Congress Center.JPG, Istanbul Congress Center File:Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall 02.jpg,

File:Istanbul Hilton.JPG,

File:DivanHotel.JPG, Divan Hotel

References

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