The Vahdettin Pavilion, also called the Çengelköy Pavilion, stands on a hill in the Çengelköy neighbourhood of Üsküdar, on the Asian shore of Istanbul, overlooking the Bosphorus. The original was a timber mansion designed by the French-Ottoman architect Alexander Vallaury and built under Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who allotted it to his brother Mehmed Vahdettin, the future last Ottoman sultan. After 1922 the estate was broken up and sold. A restoration begun under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled down the pavilion and three neighbouring timber mansions and rebuilt them in concrete, finished in August 2014. Critics describe the result as an inaccurate replica. The 65 decare property now serves as an official residence of the President of Turkey and as a state guest house.
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Çengelköy neighborhood of Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey
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which was demolished in 2013 and replaced with an inaccurate concrete replica
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Çengelköy neighborhood of Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey
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a historical timber mansion which stood at the same location
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