page_title: Eyüp
section_title: Eyüp today
hierarchical_section_title: Eyüp / Eyüp today
caption_attribution_description: English: It's a painting made by Amedeo Preziosi. It is a landscape with pale colours. It also make sense for its showing a graveyard. I think, this photo is really important to see Istanbul's rich heritage.Currently it is like that, because when all the city changes, there is one certain thing which does not change is, graveyards! and it is in everywhere in Istanbul. In addition, those different shape of tombstones gives us some informations about the jobs of people who died. I think, it is a very considerable art piece to be seen by people who want to get the deep view of the Istanbul
context_page_description: Eyüp or Eyüpsultan is a municipality and district of the city of İstanbul, Turkey. The district extends from the Golden Horn all the way to the shore of the Black Sea. Eyüp is also the name of a prominent neighborhood and former village in the district, located at the confluence of the Kâğıthane and Alibey streams at the head of the Golden Horn. The Eyüp neighborhood is a historically important area, especially for Turkey's Muslims. It became district centre in 1936, after some parts of Fatih, Çatalca and Sarıyer was joined together; later for some time it also included Gaziosmanpaşa and Bayrampaşa districts. Its present boundaries were established after the borough of Yayla was given to Sultangazi in 2009. Its neighbours are Sarıyer in the east, Kâğıthane and Beyoğlu in the southeast, Gaziosmanpaşa, Fatih and Sultangazi in the south, Başakşehir in the southwest and Arnavutköy in the west.
context_section_description: In recent years many of the factories have been closed or cleaned up, the Golden Horn no longer smells so bad, and it is possible to sit by the waterside. The area has also increasingly attracted conservative Muslim families.
  The Eyüp Sultan Mosque continues to draw tourists visiting Istanbul, as well as larger numbers of Turkish religious pilgrims. At Friday prayer and throughout Ramadan, the area is full of visitors from all over the city. Pilgrims to the mosque include a wide range of Muslims, especially before weddings or circumcisions.
  In recent years, a thriving market has grown around the mosque selling prayer mats, beads, dates from Saudi Arabia, scented oils, Islamic books, recordings of Koran recitation, and other items. On Fridays, a marching band plays Ottoman military music, mehter, giving the area around the mosque a carnival atmosphere with an Islamic twist. In Ramadan, the area in front of the mosque is taken over by large tents where food is served at the evening fast breaking.
  The main building of the 2010-established Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University is situated in a historic building in Eyüp.
  A gondola lift brings visitors from the shore of the Golden Horn up to the outdoor Pierre Loti Café (Turkish: Piyerloti Kahvesi), a popular spot offering a panoramic view of the Golden Horn, named after the 19th-century French writer Pierre Loti (pseudonym of Julien Viaud), who wrote two novels based on his stay in Istanbul.
caption: View from Eyüp towards the Golden Horn painted by the Maltese 19th-century watercolour artist Amedeo Preziosi.
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