Dolmabahce Palace #3 is a photograph by Dobromir Dobrinov which was uploaded on December 6th, 2013.
Dolmabahce Palace #3
Dolmabahce Palace was ordered by the Empire's 31st Sultan, Abdulmecid I, and built between the years 1843 and 1856. Hacı Said Ağa was... more
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Dolmabahce Palace #3
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Dobromir Dobrinov
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Dolmabahce Palace was ordered by the Empire's 31st Sultan, Abdulmecid I, and built between the years 1843 and 1856. Hacı Said Ağa was responsible for the construction works, while the project was realized by architects Garabet Balyan, his son Nigoğayos Balyan and Evanis Kalfa (members of the Balyan family of Ottoman court architects.) The construction cost five million Ottoman mecidiye gold coins, 35 tonnes of gold, the equivalent of $1,481,424,175 in today's (2013) values.[1][2] Fourteen tonnes of gold in the form of gold leaf were used to gild the ceilings of the 45,000 square metre monoblock palace, which stands on an area of 110,000 m.[3][4]
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