Moda, Kadıköy

Moda is a quarter in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey.

It is located on a peninsula between the center of Kadıköy and the Kurbağalıdere creek on the Anatolian part of Istanbul.

The place became an outstanding residential area only after the 1870s, when wealthy non-Muslims settled down there by building their own mansions.

[1] It is a multi-cultural place with Armenian, Greek and Anglican church buildings, Georgian art house, theatres, French Lycée Saint-Joseph (1870) Kadıköy Anatolian High School (1955), old curiosity shops, fish and international food restaurants.

[2] Moda is served by the 2003-established Kadıköy-Moda Nostalgia Tram line.