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Kuzguncuk

This attractive neighbourhood was home to a large Christian and Jewish population until some decades ago and still has a number of sights like two synagogues, some churches among which the Armenian Surp Krikor Lusavoriç, dozens of wooden houses and a Jewish and Christian cemetery.

Getting there
Fıstıkağacı 1.1 km, Kuzguncuk, Kuzguncuk; on the Bosphorus between Üsküdar and Beylerbeyi, just south of the foot of the Bosphorus Bridge

Listing from Wikivoyage: Istanbul/Asian Bosphorus, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Location and details from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.