Özet:

Cities are a living tissue that is constantly changing and shaped, with its own unique identity. The identity of the city can be preserved by the existence of tangible and intangible elements and their transfer to future generations. Examining the existing changes of these elements in history and determining the disappearing elements are important for city history studies. Neighborhoods, which are the smallest socio-cultural, administrative and economic building blocks of cities, have both social and physical integrity. In the Ottoman quarters of the classical period, where the social integration of the people was felt most intensely, there are different physical elements such as mosques, tombs, baths, dervish lodges, madrasahs and schools for the needs of the people. After the conquest of Constantinople, the construction of various parts of the city was started in order to emphasize the Turkish-Muslim identity of the city. Fatih Complex, which was started to be built by Fatih Sultan Mehmet in 1463, was finished in 1470. With the construction of the complex, the district gained a Muslim identity. Taking Fatih as an example, the state officials built various religious and social structures along the street, which is the subject of the study, starting from the Black Sea Madrasahs of the Fatih Complex and extending towards the Golden Horn. In this context, Fatih Karadeniz Street shows the characteristics of a street that was formed shortly after the conquest of Istanbul. In this study, the existing and lost immovable cultural heritage of Karadeniz Street, which has a Turkish-Muslim identity since the 15th century, is determined from visual documents such as maps and photographs. In this context, the main purpose of the study is to analyze the change of the region and, in connection with it, the Black Sea Street, in the light of concrete primary source data such as maps, photographs and zoning plans. In particular, the area where Karadeniz Street is located constitutes the focus of the study, and documenting the place of the region in Istanbul City History by identifying the existing and lost cultural assets constitutes the main study problematic of the research. As a result of the study, it is seen that there were eight immovable cultural assets on Karadeniz Street in the 19th century. However, it is understood that all of these works were affected by the 1918 Fatih fire. Some of these structures were severely damaged by the fire, and some of them were completely destroyed by burning. Of these eight cultural assets, only Yarhisar Mosque, Gelenbevi High School and Sinan Ağa Mosque were restored. In the 20th century, following the disappearance of a large part of the immovable cultural heritage of Karadeniz Street, dense concrete construction is observed that disrupts the urban texture of the region.