Home Turkey Maiden’s Tower
  • Maiden’s Tower

  • Maiden’s Tower

    Maiden’s Tower, also known as Leander’s Tower, is an ottoman era tower located on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosporus strait in the Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. It was built on the site of an older structure dating back to the Byzantine area. The Maiden’s Tower was built as a lighthouse in 1725 AD by order of the grand vizier Damat Ibrahim Pasha. The tower was restored in 1832, during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmoud II, and then again in the years 1998 and 2021.
    Archaeological Site
    Maiden’s Tower
    by Noumenon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 0 m

    Humidity: %
    Wind:
    Powered by: OpenWeatherMap
    Flag of Turkey

    Maiden’s Tower

    Archaeological Site

     

     

    fortification

    Castles and Fortresses

    Location

    Turkey

    Istanbul Province

    history_logo

    18th Century AD

    Islamic

    Islamic

    history_logo

    Islamic Monuments

     

     

     

  • 3.7 Average Based on 15 Reviews
  • Current Rating
    Five
    5
    Four
    4
    Three
    3
    Two
    2
    One
    1
    Your Rating
  • Add Your Comment
  • The published comments do not represent the opinion of our site, but express the opinion of their publishers.