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MAHMUT
NEDİM PAŞA
Yalısı
/ MAHMUT NEDIM PASHA Mansion
The most striking element
of this mansion, built for Mahmut Nedim Pasa, the Ottoman Ambassador
to Austria, is its tower. The inspiration for the tower was from the
buildings of Vienna and Prague, where Mahmut Nedim Pasa had lived.
His heirs have donated
this building in Vaniköy, to the Turkish Red Crescent Organization,
but last year it was sold to Yalçin Sabanci for three million US
dollars.
Pasa had been a Governor
and also a Grand Vizier of the Empire. Due to his pro-Russian
stance, he was called Nedimof.
Ref.
The Water Mansions of Istanbul,
Saffet Emre Tonguç
ICVB ISTANBUL Bulletin |
