Bezesteni

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Bezesteni

Bezesteni (Venizelos and Solomou Streets), the enclosed market for luxury textiles and precious objects, was probably built in 1455-1459 by Sultan Mehmet II as a safe trading gallery for gold and other precious objects of the city’s merchants. It continues to retain the same use, that of a traditional closed commercial market, to this day. It is a rectangular stone-built building with an entrance on each side, with six leaded domes forming six open spaces. It had 69 small shops inside and another 44 on the outer walls. In Bezesteni, in two phases, in the 1980s and 1990s, extensive work was carried out on fixing and renovating the shop fronts.

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