Spice Bazaar, Istanbul

The Misir Çarşısı ( " Egyptian Bazaar ", also known as the Egyptian Bazaar and Spice Bazaar ) is a covered bazaar in Istanbul's Eminonu near the Galata Bridge and the New Mosque.

The floor plan is L-shaped, inside straddle the bazaar street about 100 shops, which are only partly sorted by industry. Today, in addition to spices and textiles, electronics, and other newspapers are offered. The main industries are food and textile trade. There is a traditional restaurant above the main entrance to the Galata Bridge. You can hire the premises of the Istanbul municipality.

Through access from several sides of the Misir Çarşısı also serves as a link between the many market stalls for vegetables, meat and fish, household goods, pets and clothing that surround him. This open bazaar district extends uphill to the Kapali Çarşı, the so-called " Grand Bazaar ".

Even before the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople ( 1453), in the Byzantine Middle Ages was the whole surrounding Quarter for traders from the Italian Maritime Republics ( Venetians, Pisans, Genoese and of Amalfi ); today Hasircilar Caddesi was the street sale of the Venetians. Nearby, in the Jewish quarter before the " Jewish Gate", lived and also sold Jewish merchants.

Explosion

1998 occurred in the bazaar an explosion in which seven people have been fatally injured, including several children. The Turkish government came from a bomb attack by the PKK and raised multiple charges against Pınar selectivity, who was sentenced in January 2013 in absentia to life imprisonment. To date, however, is disputed by the court-appointed appraisers, whether it is at all concerned with the explosion in the bazaar to the detonation of a bomb or an accident with a gas tank. After the incident, the security checks were temporarily tightened up before the entrance of the bazaar.