Kandilli is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Üsküdar, Istanbul Province, Turkey.

[2] It lies on the Asian bank of Bosphorus and is home to some of Istanbul's in-city forests.

The Kandilli Observatory, a facility of Boğaziçi University, is dedicated mostly to earthquake science.

The historical waterfront Vaniköy Mosque at Vaniköy [tr], founded in honor of Vani Mehmet Efendi, an ethnic Kurdish pasha from Van, was built in 1670 during the Ottoman period.

The mosque was badly damaged by fire on 15 November 2020,[4] caused by a short circuit.