Soğukçeşme Sokağı

The car-free zone street is named after the fountain situated at its end towards Gülhane Park.

The wooden, two or three-storey Ottoman houses consisting of four to ten rooms date to the 19th to 20th century, and have been restored with the initiative of Çelik Gülersoy in 1985-1986.

The buildings are decorated in the 19th-century style with furniture including such items as beds and consoles, silk curtains, velvet armchairs and gilded mirrors.

[2] One of the houses hosts the library "İstanbul Kitaplığı" with over 10,000 books about Istanbul[3] owned by the Çelik Gülersoy Foundation.

On one end of the street towards Gülhane Park is a Byzantine cistern, which houses the "Sarnıç Restaurant" today.

Marble street sign at the entrance of the street from the south
Soğukçeşme Sokağı with typical Ottoman houses of the late 19th century