Cine Opera and Ipek

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Beyoğlu İpek Sineması. Source: Gökhan Akçura Archive.

Opera Sineması (1924) |  İpek Sineması | Şehir Tiyatroları Komedi Sahnesi

Source

Cinema Ipek 1940ies.
and Suat Nirven 1950 map


Mavi Boncuk |


Built in 1924 as Opera Cinema, later İpek and eventually used as a stage for the Istanbul Municipal Theatre (Şehir Tiyatroları Komedi Sahnesi) and once in disrepair as a workshop. While being used as a fabric warehouse and retail location burned down on November 17, 1983.

Huber 1887 Map shows the future location of Opera/Ipek

[1] Ahmet Mithat (1844 – December 28, 1912) was an Ottoman journalist, author, translator and publisher during the Tanzimat period. In his works, he was known as Ahmet Mithat Efendi, to distinguish him from the contemporary politician Midhat Pasha. Ahmet Mithat Efendi took his name from Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha, as he worked for a time as an official and newspaper editor in Midhat Pasha's Vilayet of the Danube.

Politically, his orientation was more conservative, compared to writers such as Namık Kemal. He was a prolific writer, more than 250 of his works have survived. From 1878 on, he published the newspaper Tercüman-ı Hakikat (Interpreter of Truth).

His editorship and publication of Olga Lebedeva's translations of Russian literature into Turkish served as an introduction of Tolstoy, Lermontov and Pushkin to Turkey's readership. In addition, he was a patron and teacher to Fatma Aliye, one of the most famous female Ottoman authors. 

The Barbaros story possibly sourced from Numara: 5/1290 of KIRKANBAR Maarif edebiyat terâcim - i ahvâl ve letâiften bahs eder on beş yirmi günde bir çıkar mecmuadır. Sahibi: Mehmed Cevdet Fiyatı 4 İlk defa olarak Beyoğlu’nda Haçopulo Çarşısı’nda On Üç Numaralı Matbaa’da Basılmıştır. İstanbul 1290