Beyazıt State Library
Beyazıt State Library (Turkish: Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi; formerly known as the Ottoman Public Library) is a book depositary and digital library in Istanbul. One of Turkey's oldest libraries, it is the first national library of Ottoman manuscripts and one of the country's six legal deposit libraries.
| Beyazıt State Library | |
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| Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi | |
Beyazıt State Library, 2013 | |
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| Location | Beyazıt, Çadırcılar Cd. No:4, 34126 Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey |
| Type | National library |
| Established | 24 June 1884 |
| Architect(s) | Tabanlıoğlu Architects |
| Reference to legal mandate | Decree of Abdülhamid II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire authorizing the Statute of the Ottoman Public Library, the National Library of the Ottoman (24 June 1884) |
| Service area | Turkey |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | Ottoman periodicals, newspapers, magazines, journals |
| Other information | |
| Director | Abdülkadir Öztuğrul |
| Affiliation | Ministry of Culture and Tourism |
| Website | istanbulbeyazitdevlet |
The library houses Ottoman periodicals, newspapers, magazines and other historical records. In all it contains 1.5 million published materials – 900,000 books, 65,000 postcards, maps, cinema posters, 33,000 different magazines and more than 5,000 audiobooks. It was visited by nearly 140,000 readers in 2018 and hosted more than 67,000 readers in the first six months of 2019.
It covers an area of about 3,000 square meters (0.7 acres) on the eastern side of Beyazıt Square.