Malta Kiosk

The Malta Kiosk, also called the Malta Pavilion and known in Turkish as Malta Kosku, is a two-storey imperial Ottoman pavilion standing on a steep hill in the garden of Yildiz Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. Sultan Abdulaziz, who reigned from 1861 to 1876, commissioned it as a hunting lodge. The architect Sarkis Balyan designed it in the neo-baroque style, and it was completed in 1870. It is one of two lodges of its kind in Yildiz Park, the other being the Cadir Pavilion, and it sits on the north side of the wall that divides the Yildiz Palace grounds. The building takes its name from its most conspicuous material, limestone brought from Malta, which was used extensively in its construction. The source describes it as a historic residence and names two nearby watching and resting pavilions in the grove behind Ciragan Palace that date from the same sultan's reign.