Pearl Kiosk

The Pearl Kiosk by the Marmara shore. 18th-century etching by Choiseul-Gouffier.

The Pearl Kiosk (Turkish: İncili Köşk) was a mansion directly located at the banks of the Bosphorus and served as a pleasure building for the Ottoman sultan. It was built in 1590 by the grand vizier Koca Sinan Pasha.

Literature

Fanny Davis. Palace of Topkapi in Istanbul. 1970. ASIN B000NP64Z2
Necipoğlu, Gülru (1991). Architecture, ceremonial, and power: The Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. pp. 336 pages. ISBN 0-262-14050-0.

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