Pearl Kiosk Explained

The Pearl Kiosk (Turkish: İncili Köşk) was a mansion directly located at the banks of the Bosphorus and served as a pleasure building for the Ottoman sultan. It was built in 1590 by the grand vizier Koca Sinan Pasha.

Literature

• Fanny Davis. Palace of Topkapi in Istanbul. 1970. ASIN B000NP64Z2
• Book: Necipoğlu, Gülru. Architecture, ceremonial, and power: The Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 1991. 336 pages. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 0-262-14050-0.