Native name: Beyazit Yangin Kulesi
Beyazıt Tower is located in the courtyard of Istanbul University’s main campus on Beyazit square. The tower is a 85 metres tall fire-watch tower. On its place, there was originally a previous tower of wooden material but it was destroyed in a fire. Sultan Mahmut II had ordered the construction of Beyazit tower to be built by Senekerim Balyan on the place of the previous one in 1828 as a stone tower. The observation floor of that tower was circular in shape, measuring about 50 m², and rises on the cylinder body of the tower. The roof of the tower was originally in the shape of a cone, but it was later changed in 1849 and turned into octagon plan with an addition of three floors with windows. The smaller diameter of these three floors makes space fo...
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