Following this incident, the name Sağmalcılar became synonymous with cholera, so the district was renamed Bayrampaşa, after the 17th-century Ottoman grand vizier Bayram Pasha.

[citation needed] On 1 December 2015, an explosion occurred near Bayrampaşa metro station, leaving several injured.

to be of poor quality,[opinion] with workshops and small factories even in the residential streets, while large areas of the district are purely industrial.

[citation needed] The district's neighbours are Gaziosmanpaşa to the north, Eyüp to the east, Zeytinburnu to the south, and Esenler to the west.

[citation needed] A number of important public buildings are in the area:[citation needed] Bayrampaşa lies on the route of the old road to Thrace and a number of major roads and a light railway run through the middle of the area.