Sirkeci railway station is a historic terminal on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey, built in 1890 by the Oriental Railway to serve as the eastern terminus of the Orient Express, the celebrated line that ran between Paris and Istanbul from 1883 to 2009. It was designed by the Prussian architect August Jasmund, who had been sent by the German government to study Ottoman architecture while teaching in Istanbul, and the roughly 1,200 square meter building is considered one of the most influential examples of European Orientalism, shaping later architects' designs. For its time the station was notably modern, fitted with gas lighting and Austrian tiled stoves for heating, and its restaurant became a well known meeting place for journalists and writers during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Building Type LocationSirkeci, Istanbul, Turkey 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Sirkeci railway station, Wikipedia
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Turkey, located there.
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1. Sirkeci railway station, Wikipedia
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is a railway terminal in
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are Istanbul's two intercity and commuter railway terminals.
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Built in 1890 by the
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Sirkeci railway station is a historic terminal on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey, built in 1890 by the Oriental Railway to serve as the eastern terminus of the Orient Express, the celebrated line that ran between Paris and Istanbul from 1883 to 2009. It was designed by the Prussian architect August Jasmund, who had been sent by the German government to study Ottoman architecture while teaching in Istanbul, and the roughly 1,200 square meter building is considered one of the most influential examples of European Orientalism, shaping later architects' designs. For its time the station was notably modern, fitted with gas lighting and Austrian tiled stoves for heating, and its restaurant became a well known meeting place for journalists and writers during the 1950s and 1960s.
In Style: Ottoman Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Ottoman architecture in Istanbul
View the Source2. Wikidata: Sirkeci Railway Station
- Wikidata Q800974, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q800974, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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