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Saint Pierre Han (Sen Piyer Han) is a historic building in the Galata neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It’s located a block uphill from Bankalar Street at the corner of Eski Banka Street and Galata Kulesi Street.
The building was built in 1772 on the old bank street, which is one of the streets parallel to the banks street. The building covers the left side of the street from Karaköy to Şişhane. Although there are five gates numbered 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, this building is actually the French ambassador st. A single building built by the priest. It is said that the French poet Chenier was born in 1762 in another building where this building is located.
We do not know to what extent it served the French literature before, but today, it is a building that is at the service the tradesmen shops.
no : 17 izol bobinaj / no : 15 zafer pompa / no : 11 topkapı elektrik / no : 9 akım elektrik / no : 7 akkor neon
Constructed by the French Ambassador Comte de Saint Priest in 1770-1775, the structure consists of several buildings connected to each other. There are Genoese crests on the facade of the building.
While the Ottoman Bank was being built, the gold belonging to the Treasury was kept in this inn for a long time. Later, the Ottoman Bank, which served as the first Central Bank in the Ottoman Empire, first started its activities in this building. (1856) When the Ottoman Bank moved to its new building on Bankalar Caddesi in 1892, the building began to be used as an inn. The architect of this new building, Vallaury, of French origin, had an inscription bearing his name in memory of the poet Chernier placed on the front of the building, right after the Ottoman Bank moved from here. The building was used as the Italian Chamber of Commerce for a while.
Dating back to Rome and continuing its testimony in Eski Banka Street in Beyoğlu - Galata region, which has been keeping the pulse of trade as a Genoese colony since the 12th century. Pierre Han is one of the buildings that attract attention with its multi-layered texture in the city.
Saint Pierre Han was built in 1771 by François-Emmanuel Guignard, Comte de Saint-Priest. It originally housed French interests in Constantinople including the French National Bank. From 1856 to 1893, it was the home of the Ottoman Bank. The building also hosted the Constantinople Bar Association, the Italian Chamber of Commerce, several architects, and a mustard factory.
There’s also a plaque commemorating the birth of French poet André Marie Chénier. He was born in a wooden house on the site on October 30, 1762. His father was a French diplomat and his mother a Greek. The family moved to France when Chénier was three years old and the house later burned down. If you look closely, you’ll notice the crest of the Comte de Saint-Priest adorning the building as well as the fleur-de-lis of the Kingdom of France.
The history of the inn is the temple of Dominican priests, bearing the signature of the Italian architect Gaspare Trajano Fossati, for which it was first named. Pierre Church. After the wooden lodgings of the church were burned in the famous fires of the region, St. Pierre, with its 58-meter-long façade, is located on an area of approximately 2500 square meters. The inn, which is perceived as a single building from the outside, actually consists of different building groups added to each other.
Perhaps the most important feature of the inn, where we have seen the representatives of insurance companies since the second half of the 19th century, is that the heart of the Ottoman architecture of the period beat here to a large extent. Eight architectural offices were opened in Sen Pierre Han between 1910-1921. After the rooms were started to be rented one by one, a total of 23 architectural offices operated in this inn in 37 years. There are names like Marco G. Langas, Giulio Mongeri, Emilio Faracci among the architects who have offices in Sen Pierre Han. One of the longest-term tenants was Architect Alexandros Yenidunya, one of Istanbul's most original art-nouveau practitioners. Alexandre Vallaury, one of the most important Istanbul architects of the period, was another person who had an office here between 1920-21. Vallaury, architect of today's Central Bank - Ottoman Bank (Salt Galata) building.
Among the highlights of the inn's memory is that it hosts the Bank-ı Osmani-i Şahane, which was established in 1863 as one of the official banks of the Ottoman state. Signs of these names are still in place in the building, which was used as an office by important architects of the period such as Antoine N. Perpignani, Hovsep Aznavur, Marco G. Langas, Edoardo Carlo Vittorio De Nori and Giulio Mongeri, who created the monumental structures of Istanbul in the years after the bank. The "Muhteşem Kot" workshop, which was recorded as the first "jeans" workshop in Istanbul, is also mentioned with St. Pierre Han/Pierre Han.
Fortunately, the building will be restored by the Bahçeşehir Uğur Education Foundation (Bahçeşehir Uğur Eğitim Vakfı) and opened to the public (as of October 2021). When complete, it will feature temporary and permanent exhibition halls, a library, workshops, and areas for cultural activities. The restoration will preserve its cultural and historical heritage. Bahçeşehir University had originally rented the building in 2011 with plans to convert it into a conservatory, but beaurocracy has delayed its renovation until recently.
BAU Conservatory Director Aslıhan Umar stated that they are happy to accept students to Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Conservatory and pointed out that they have great ideals and goals.
Umar said, “In the magical atmosphere of this inn, we want our students to develop their creative thoughts, continue their practical education here, and graduate from us as world artists with a project-oriented education. We have big ideals and big goals. We think that this inn provides us with a great deal of opportunity. This place will be organized according to the needs of the conservatory in terms of theoretical education, it will also become a structure with application and design workshops, and of course, it will be in a structure where our students can crown and stage the knowledge they have learned. It will not be just a conservatory building. We want this place to be a gift to the cultural and artistic life of Istanbul, Europe and the world. We want this place to be a design and art academy.”
François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (12 March
1735 – 26 February 1821), was a French politician and diplomat during the
Ancien Régime and French Revolution.
Saint-Priest was sent as an ambassador in 1768 to the Ottoman Empire, where he remained (with the exception of one short interval) until 1785. There, he married Wilhelmina von Ludolf, the daughter of the ambassador of the Kingdom of Naples to the Sublime Porte. His Mémoires sur l'ambassade de France en Turquie et le commerce des Français dans le Levant, prepared during a return visit to France, were only published in 1877, when they were edited by Charles Schefer. Besides these, he wrote an Examen des assemblés provinciales (1787).
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