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Key facts
- Location
- Istanbul , Turkey
- Type
- Covered bazaar
- Beginning date
- 1455 ; 571 years ago ( 1455 )
- Completion date
- after 1730
- Dedicated to
- Mehmed II
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- market hall
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Fatih
- Location
- Istanbul
- Dedicated to
- Mehmed II
- Official website
- www.kapalicarsi.org.tr
- Image
- Ворота Beyazıt .jpg
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- Commons category
- Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
- Commons gallery
- Kapalı Çarşı
- native label
- Kapalıçarşı
- commissioned by
- Mehmed II
- architectural style
- Ottoman architecture
- located in/on physical feature
- Marmara Region
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Encyclopedic overview
The Grand Bazaar (Turkish: Kapalıçarşı, meaning ‘Covered Market’; also Büyük Çarşı, meaning ‘Grand Market’) in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops on a total area of 30,700 m, attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily. In 2014, it was listed No.1 among the world's most-visited tourist attractions with 91,250,000 annual visitors. The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is often regarded as one of the first shopping malls of the world.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grand Bazaar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.