Native Name: Sahaflar Çarşı
Sahaflar Bazaar is a second-hand book bazaar. Its entrance is located across the Fesçiler Door of Grand Bazaar. It is in the old courtyard between Beyazid Mosque and Grand Bazaar. On its current place, there was the Chartoprateia or the book and paper market of the old Byzantine city. In the 18th century, booksellers left their original place at Grand Bazaar and settled here. The market was expanded after that thanks to printing and publishing legislation introduced at that time.
The Bazaar was once the main place for book sale and book distribution as well as a meeting place for intellectual people within the Ottoman Empire however, the importance of the Bazaar began to decline in the last 50 or 60 years because of the opening of modern bookstores as...
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