Cihangir Park

The low stone wall marking the edge of Cihangir Park holds back a steep slope that drops away toward the Bosphorus. This small, tiered garden occupies a patch of land that once belonged to the sixteenth-century mosque complex of Cihangir, named for a son of Suleiman the Magnificent. When the original mosque burned down, the hill remained a quiet overlook for neighborhood residents. Cats sleep on the benches, and the park serves as a community front porch for the surrounding hillside streets.