Marble Kiosk

The Marble Kiosk located next to the Cannon Gate (Top kapı), from the Hünername miniature (16th century)

The Marble Kiosk (Turkish: Mermer Köşkü) was a structure directly located at the banks of the Bosphorus of Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, and served as a pleasure building for the Ottoman Padishah. It was located next to the Cannon Gate (Top kapı), both structures are today lost.

Possible parts of Marble Kiosk

Literature

Fanny Davis. Palace of Topkapi in Istanbul. 1970. ASIN B000NP64Z2
Necipoğlu, Gülru (1991). Architecture, ceremonial, and power: The Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. pp. 336 pages. ISBN 0-262-14050-0.

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