İcadiye is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

Üsküdar Üsküdar () is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 35 km2, and its population is 524,452 (2022). It is a large and densely populated district on the Anatolian (Asian) shore of the Bosphorus. It is border ...

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. Its population is 15,962 (2022). It is on the Asian side of

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. It is centered on İcadiye Hill and is bordered on the north by

Kuzguncuk Kuzguncuk is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Üsküdar, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 4,151 (2022). It is on the Asian side of the Bosphorus. The neighborhood is centered on a valley opening to the Bosphorus and i ...

, on the east by Altunizade, on the south by Selami Ali, and on the west by

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. It is mostly a residential neighborhood, with a few historic houses and buildings. The name of the neighborhood is related to the word for

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(). It received this name because new types of

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es invented by Sarkis Kalfa of

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were manufactured in shops there. Several water sources on İcadiye Hill were connected to the historic center of Üsküdar during the Ottoman era. The Mihrimah Sultan Water Line was built in 1547 to bring water to the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque. The Arslan Agha Water Line was built in 1646 to bring water to

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s in Sultantepe and to the Abdi Efendi and Mihrimah Sultan Mosques. The neighborhood has a historic

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, the İcadiye Dağ Hamamı, built in 1854 by Sheikh ul-Islam Arif Hikmet Beyefendi. Because of its strategic location, in the past the neighborhood was the site of two fire towers, Arapzade Tower and Ayarcıbaşı Tower.

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s in the neighborhood include the Hacı Mehmet Ali Öztürk Mosque (1990) and the Hacı Osmanoğlu Mosque. Schools in the neighborhood include Nersesyan Yermonyan Armenian Private Kindergarten and Elementary School (as of the 2000-2001 school year, this school had no students), Fuat Baymur Elementary School, İcadiye Elementary School, and Üsküdar High School.İstanbul Üsküdar Lisesi. URL: http://www.istanbuluskudarlisesi.k12.tr/ Retrieved 24 October 2009.

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