Silivrikapı Ice Skating Hall, full name Silivrikapı Ice Skating Hall and Recreation Center, shortly Silivrikapı Ice Rink, (), is an indoor

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and

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arena An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances or Sport, sporting events. It comprises a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for specta ...

located at Silivrikapı neighborhood of

Fatih Fatih () is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 15 km2, and its population is 368,227 (2022). It is home to almost all of the provincial authorities (including the mayor's office, police headquarters, metro ...

district in

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. It was opened in September 2009. The arena consists of an Olympic-size rink of with a seating capacity of 900 people, and another one of for 200 spectators used as training rink. Covering an area of , the construction of the complex cost 30 million (approx. US$20 million).

History

Asked by the Turkish Ice Skating Federation, the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul planned to build an ice rink in 1989. The district municipality of Fatih allocated the current site for the building of the venue. However, the government was reluctant to provide the funds required. The planning and the works proceeded only slow since the project proved to be difficult due to lack of technical know-how about the construction of an ice rink. Shortly before the completion of the construction, a major earthquake in 1999 devastated parts of Istanbul. Due to an expertise, the building was declared unsafe. The structure was then demolished, and the project was abandoned. Years after, the project to build an ice rink resumed with pressure from the ice skating community and financial support from the government. In 2007, the construction of a new ice skating venue began at the same site in Silivrikapı that was finally completed in September 2009. Shortly after its opening, the venue hosted

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's Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating event. Silivrikapı Ice Skating Hall hosts ice hockey clubs of Istanbul, which carried out their trainings in the past at the

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, a small size ice rink in a shopping mall not far from the Silivrikapı Arena.

International events hosted

* 15th Junior Grand Prix Bosphorus October 14–18, 2009 *

2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III The 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, the fourth level of the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. It took place in Ista ...

January 4–10, 2010 *

2016 IIHF World Championship Division III The 2016 IIHF World Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was contested in Istanbul, Turkey, from 31 March to 6 April 2016. The host team, Turkey, won all of its ga ...

March 31 – April 6, 2016

Places of interest

Zeytinburnu Ice Rink Zeytinburnu Ice Rink (), is an indoor ice skating and ice hockey hockey rink, arena located at Zeytinburnu district in Istanbul, Turkey. Owned by the Municipality of Zeytinburnu, it was opened in 2022. History The Municipality of Zeytinburnu e ...

Walls of Constantinople The Walls of Constantinople (; ) are a series of defensive wall, defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople (modern Fatih district of Istanbul) since its founding as the new capital of the Roman Empire b ...

, Silivrikapı (literally:

Silivri Silivri, formerly Selymbria (Greek language, Greek: Σηλυμβρία), is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 217,163 (2022). It lies along the Sea of Marmara, outsi ...

Gate) is a gate of the old city walls in the west, *

Basketball Development Centre, Türkiye Basketball Development Center () is a sport complex for basketball in Istanbul, Turkey opened in 2024. It is owned by the Turkish Basketball Federation (TBF), and is home to men's and women's national teams in all age groups. Additionally, two loc ...

Transport

* City bus lines 93, 93C, 93M and 93T serve the venue.

References

External links

Indoor arenas in Turkey Ice hockey venues in Turkey Sports venues in Istanbul Figure skating venues in Turkey Sports venues completed in 2009 2009 establishments in Turkey Sport in Fatih {{Figure-skating-stub