Monument· Fatih, İstanbul

Atıf Efendi Kütüphanesi

StyleOttoman architecture

Atıf Efendi Kütüphanesi is a monument in Fatih, İstanbul; The Atıf Efendi Library is in the Vefa quarter of Istanbul's Fatih district, endowed in 1741 by Atıf Mustafa Efendi, a chief treasury official and divan poet.

Atıf Efendi Kütüphanesi
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The Atıf Efendi Library is in the Vefa quarter of Istanbul's Fatih district, endowed in 1741 by Atıf Mustafa Efendi, a chief treasury official and divan poet. It was the second library in the Ottoman state to occupy a building of its own. Its collection includes about 3,000 manuscripts among some 30,000 works in total, and all of its manuscripts have been digitized.

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