Kagithane is a district on the European side of Istanbul. Sarıyer surrounds it in the north, Besiktas in the northeast, Sisli in the east and south, Beyoglu in the southwest, and Eyupsultan in the west. The district is home to the Prime Ministry, Ottoman Archive, private universities, and schools.
During the Byzantine period, the name of Kagithane Creek was Barbados. Although there is no exact information, there was a paper mill here during the conquest of Istanbul, and Mehmet II founded this workshop. It is estimated that it had worked until the Bayezid period (1481-1512).
Evliya Celebi tells about the vicinity of Kagithane in the 17th century and suggests that there was a ruined paper mill here. The name of the district and district must have come from this paper mill.
The land structure is rugged and consists of streams and valleys. These areas are used as residential areas now. The central location of Kagithane stands out thanks to the transformation and other real estate projects, as well as the developments in transportation such as the metro, Kagithane, and Dolmabahce tunnels, the 3rd bridge, the 3rd airport, and the three-story tube passage (Great Istanbul Tunnel).
Today, many residential and office projects are implemented in every neighborhood of the district. Kagithane, adjacent to the developed regions of the European Side, is in the north with Ayazaga-Maslak over the Cendere Axis-Seyrantepe with Levent and Sisli in the east. It integrates with Eyup in the western and Beyoglu-Taksim in the south.
In the center of Kagithane, there is the Little Kemal Children Stage and the City Theaters Sadabad Stage within the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Also, cultural centers belong to the district municipality.
Kagithane was a village attached to the Sisli Istanbul, later separated from the Sisli district under Law No: 3392, published in the Official Gazette dated 8 July 1987. And it is established as an independent district.
With the local administration elections held on 26 March 1989, the mayoralty was established. The most prominent neighborhoods, consisting of 19 totally, are Seyrantepe, Hamidiye, Merkez, and Talatpasa.
Some of the attraction centers in Kagithane:
In the district of Kagithane, there are six preschool education institutions, 49 primary schools, and 15 secondary education institutions.
The highways that cross the Bosphorus with the Bosphorus and Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridges pass through the district of Kagithane. Of these, the O-1 Freeway forms a border with Sisli District in the south. O-2 Freeway follows in the east-west direction in the northern part of the Kagithane district.
Another freeway running between Okmeydanı and Hasdal intersections connects O-1 and O-2 motorways. One of the two highways connecting the new airport to the center is integrated into O-2 (TEM) at the Hasdal location via Kemerburgaz and Gokturk.
The M7 Kabatas-Mahmutbey metro passes through the south of the district. The Great Istanbul Tunnel (three-story tube passage), completed in 2019, comes from Umraniye Camlik, connecting to the Kagithane Hasdal Junction on the European side.
Istinye-ITU-Ayazaga-Kagithane and M11 Gayrettepe-Istanbul Airport metro lines, besides the Halic-Karadeniz Sahra (Dekovil) line, also pass through the district.
Kagithane is one of the central regions of Istanbul where you come for touristic, historical, or cultural trip purposes.
Although it is an old settlement in the city, it has been one of the developing regions in recent years. When you come to Kagithane, you can find many different things to do here, from the early hours of the day to the late hours of the night.
You can enjoy delicious meals with your family and friends, listen to folk songs, have fun with live music, dance until morning or chat with your friends in a shabby place with beer.
Kagithane is a district on the European side of Istanbul as a center providing every sort of business available with other residential buildings.
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