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Wiki: The Istanbul Grand Post Office, aka Istanbul Main Post
Office, (Turkish: Büyük Postane) is an office building for postal services
located at Sirkeci quarter of Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey. It was
designed by architect Vedat Tek in First Turkish National architectural style
and was constructed between 1905 and 1909. The four-story building houses a
post office, the Sirkeci Post Office (Turkish: Sirkeci PTT Merkezi), office
space for regional administration and also since 2000 the Istanbul Postal Museum
(Turkish: PTT İstanbul Müzesi). It is Turkey's largest post office building.
Initially planned for use as the building of Ministry of
Post and Telegraph (Ottoman Turkish: Posta ve Telgraf Nezareti) in the Ottoman
Empire, its construction began in 1905, and was completed in 1909. An
inscription in Ottoman Turkish alphabet on the tiled panel above the main
entrance denotes "Ministry of Post and Telegraph". The building was
renamed "New Post Office" (Turkish: Yeni Postane) in the 1930s, some
time after the establishment of the Turkish Republic, and then "Grand Post
Office" (Turkish: Büyük Postane).
In the early years of the Republic, between 1927 and 1936,
the building temporarily housed Istanbul Radio. From 1958 on, it was used
solely for postal and telegraphy services. Today, the ground floor is the
Sirkeci Post Office, the first floor is occupied by its directorate while the
second and third floors are offices for the regional post directorate of
Istanbul's European side.
On May 6, 2000, part of the building was converted into
Istanbul Postal Museum occupying four stories. The museum informs visitors
about the history of communication and telecommunication services in the
country that officially began on October 23, 1840. The museum consists of four
sections for post, telegraph, telephone and postage stamps.
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