Beyazıt Tower

It was built in 1749 in Beyazıt district of Istanbul in order to watch and notice the fires of Beyazıt Tower within the central campus of Istanbul University. The tower, which has a height of 85 meters, was initially built as wood, but it was burned in the Cibali fire in 1756. The tower, which was restored in 1826, was burned again in the janissary uprising. The Tower of Beyazıt was built for the third time during the reign of Sultan Mahmut II in 1828 to architect Senekerim Balyan.

Beyazıt fire tower consists of three parts: seizure floor, signal solid and starboard solid. At that time, the fires were notified from the Beyazıt Tower during the day and the lantern was burned at night with hanging baskets. The tower, which was illuminated in different colors at night for a long time, was used to announce the air estimation of the next day to Istanbulites. Lighting of the tower in the blue color would be open to the air the next day, green rain, yellow fog and red wife would report. This application was terminated in 1995 and started again in 2010 with the initiative of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.