Hasköy, Beyoğlu
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Hasköy is a trading and residential district on the northern bank of the Golden Horn in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey. It includes the neighbourhoods of Keçeci Piri, Piri Paşa, and Halıcıoğlu, and parts o
View of Hasköy from the Golden Horn
The Golden Horn: Kasskoj (Hasköy) or the Jewish ghetto, illustration by Cesare Biseo for the book Constantinople (1878) by Edmondo de Amicis
Entrance to the Maalem Synagogue
Abraham Salomon Camondo
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Count Abraham Salomon Camondo was a Jewish Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist, and the patriarch of the Camondo family.
Hasköy, Beyoğlu
…Armenian Cemetery. The Hasköy Jewish Cemetery (Hasköy Musevi Mezarlığı), with gravestones in a number of different languages, contains the grave of Abraham Kamondo, a banker to the Ottoman court, who had a waterside palace in nearby Kasımpaşa. In April, 2011, the cemetery was desecrated by vandals who smashed…
Abraham Salomon Camondo
Camondo Stairs at Bankalar Caddesi (Banks Street) in Galata (modern Karaköy), Istanbul, constructed by Abraham Salomon Camondo in circa 1870–1880