Pasar Spice

These days, it is also popular for great varieties of lokum (Turkish delight), small souvenirs, flavoring teas, and local delicacies, including the dubious-sounding “Turkish Viagra.” Locals come here to shop for bed linen and towels, as well as fruit and vegetables, coffee, clothes, pots, and pans, in the surrounding cramped backstreets. Outside the market on the Galata Bridge end, this is the best place to choose olives from huge barrels and many varieties of beyaz peynir (white cheese).

Spice Bazaar Turki
Multiple sources indicate that the original name of the marketplace was the “New Bazaar.” After being constructed in 1660 using funds from the Ottoman eyalet of Egypt, the market became known as the Egyptian Bazaar (Turkish: Misir Çarşisi). Both “Egypt” and “maize” can be translated from the Turkish word “misir.” so much so that the incorrect translation “corn bazaar” is sometimes used. The bazaar was (and still is) the hub of Istanbul’s spice trade, but other types of stores have been slowly replacing them in recent years.

Struktur ini terletak di dalam masjid baru (kompleks). sewa yang diterima dari bisnis yang berada di dalam bazar membayar untuk pemeliharaan masjid.

Setelah Kebakaran Besar 1660, yang dimulai pada 24 Juli 1660 dan berlangsung sedikit lebih dari dua hari (sekitar 49 jam, menurut kronologi Abdi Pasha), banyak lingkungan di Istanbul hancur. Struktur ini dirancang oleh arsitek mahkamah Koca Kasm Aga, tetapi konstruksi dimulai di bawah pengawasan arsitek mahkamah lain, Mustafa Aga, pada bulan-bulan akhir 1660. Setelah kebakaran, upaya besar-besaran untuk membangun kembali dan menghidupkan kembali kota dimulai. Konstruksi di Masjid Baru dimulai pada tahun 1660 (setelah dihentikan antara 1603 dan 1660; masjid selesai antara 1660 dan 1665), dan Spice Bazaar dibangun pada tahun yang sama.