Visitor Per Day 350 000 to 500 odd years, "GRAND"

Visitor Per Day 350 000 to 500 odd years, "GRAND"
Istanbul, the great majority of mosques around the madrasa, soup kitchen regularly with such structures have been built in the bazaars. The mosque which is included in külliyelerine and 'arastas referred to as a part of the bazaars in the last period of the Ottoman Empire, also an important part of the infrastructure works in Istanbul, after the Republic was destroyed.
Today, the bazaars, the former continuing to operate while maintaining a degree of property adjacent to the Egyptian Bazaar in Eminonu, Yeni Mosque, Sultan Ahmet Mosque Bayezid Mosque in Mecca at the bazaar or the Sipahi Bazaar, and was next to the Second Hand Book Bazaar. Under the Laleli Mosque originally been built as a market, although today tourists from the former Eastern bloc countries signed with Yased shops selling clothes are ready.
The largest and most famous of Istanbul's bazaars, mosques Nuruosmaniye Bayazit and established a wide area between the Grand Bazaar.

Visitor Per Day 350 000 to 500 odd years, "GRAND"

GRAND
The Grand Bazaar is one of the oldest bazaars in Istanbul, was founded over a wide area between Nuruosmaniye Mosques and Bayazit.
Nucleus of the bazaar, immediately following the conquest by Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror built two stone in order to provide income to the Hagia Sophia Mosque, covered bazaar. Then, expanding the amendments to the Grand Bazaar established by Mehmet the Conqueror in two covered bazaar, known as Bazaar Cevahir and Sandal. In the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is a very historic building, such as fires and earthquakes damaged from time to time, and many times larger onarılmıştır.Kapalıçarşı Istanbul, covers an area of ​​30.7 hectares and consists of 61 street.

Approximately 1500 square meters be installed on an area of ​​1300 square meters of interior space with bazaar bazaar Bazaar Sandal parts of semi-detached. Around the bazaar, surrounded by hans still forming part of a bazaar.
Many shops and streets, where thousands of 61 streets in the Grand Bazaar, Fesçiler, Serpuşçular, Tuğcular, Feraceciler, Perdahçılar, slippers, Jewelers, Aynacilar, as Kalpakçılar, named according to the professions.
Today, protecting the vitality of the past, the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul has been the focus of attention from the stranger a lot of consonant and vowel. Western writers, travel writing and memoirs in a wide divided Bazaar.

The Grand Bazaar, the city is actually a stand-alone is worth gold. On the one hand the enormous spread of the one hand, the number and variety of shops in one of the leading centers in the world. Naturally, this adds historical significance of a glory if we think can be summarized to some extent the position of the Grand Bazaar. Bazaar Bazaar is also the world's largest jeweler. Are not unique in the world, hand-crafted and eye-straining kuyumlar, shaped by the surrounding alleys and waits for visitors Bazaar showcases.
With auction houses, where a dazzling addition to a period at the beginning of the Great Bazaar Bazaar Sandal, carpet been the place these days. Bedesteni'nin Sandal is immediately behind the "flea market known as" 2 the gallery is lined with shops selling household goods in hand.

There are 3 thousand 600 establishments Bazaar. A total of 30 thousand people are working. The number of daily visitors during the tourism season varies between 250 thousand-400 thousand.
... And, even the name given to Turkey's economy, the foreign exchange market at the heart of the free market and its name has become synonymous with the Grand Bazaar was born.