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Adile Sultan Palace (Turkish:Adile Sultan Sarayı) is the formerroyal residence ofOttoman princessAdile Sultan. It was donated to the state by Adile Sultan to be used as a school building for theKandilli Anatolian High School for Girls and is today acultural center. It is located in theKandilli neighbourhood ofIstanbul,Turkey.
The palace was built for theOttoman princess Adile Sultan (1826–1899), the daughter of SultanMahmud II (1789–1839) and the sister of the SultansAbdülmecid I (1823–1861) andAbdülaziz (1830–1876), and designed by the court architectSarkis Balyan. It was erected on the same place of akiosk, which was presented to her by Sultan Abdülmecid in 1856. The palace was commissioned by Sultan Abdülaziz and built by Balyan in 1861. It stands at one of the most prominent places in Istanbul, upon a hill, which is a headland in the middle ofBosphorus on theAsian shore. This location enables a panoramic view of Bosphorus, reaching from theSea of Marmara to theBlack Sea, seen out of all the rooms in three sides of the building. The palace with has 55 rooms and is on a ground of 17,000 m2.
Adile Sultan, a great and the onlyTurkish royal femalepoet having aDiwan, lived here until the death of her husbandDamat Mehmed Ali Pasha in 1868. She donated her residence to the state to be used as a high school for girls after her death in February 1899. Before it was used as determined, the palace came a short while under the control ofMinistry of War duringWorld War I.
Only in 1916 was the building turned into a secondary school for girls, theAdile Sultan İnas Mekteb-i Sultanisi ("Adile Sultan Imperial Girls School"), and the first graduates left the school in 1920. The school was named 1924 after its location, Kandilli Secondary School. In 1931, the school became theKandilli High School for Girls, a respected educational institution since then. The classes of the high school moved to a new building in 1969. The old palace was used asdormitory forboarding girls of the school until 1986, when it was burned down due to an electricalshort-circuit. The historic building became a ruin consisting of only four walls.
Some alumni of Kandilli High School established soon a foundation, and raised funds to rebuild the palace. However, the cost of the restoration exceeded their extent. With the huge financial support of the late billionaire businessman andphilanthropistSakıp Sabancı and theGovernor of IstanbulMuammer Güler, the restoration work could continue. The lacking funds to accomplish the long-lasting and painstaking restoration works were donated again by Sakıp Sabancı in his sickbed three days before his death in 2004. Adile Sultan Palace was rebuilt in ten years at a cost of 9.5 millionYTL, and it revived after twenty years by reopening with a ceremony, which took place on June 28, 2006.
The building is named "Sakıp Sabancı Kandilli Education and Culture Center". The palace covers an area of 5,625 m2, which accommodates an oval hall for meeting and banqueting of 500 people, another two meeting halls for 200 people each, a 1,300 m2 hall for cocktails and exhibitions, 20 seminar rooms with 30-40 seats, a museum, a dining hall for 150 people and a cafeteria for 60 people. The palace garden offers place for 2,000 people.
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