İstanbul Kapısı

Istanbul Gate is a historic gate in Iznik district of Bursa, built during the time of Hadrian, (A.D. 70-71).

History

The Istanbul Gate was named after the start of the road to Istanbul in Roman and Byzantine times. It was proconsul of the provinces of Bithynia and Pontus.

Details

The Istanbul Gate has a three-way corridor, a row of rubble stone, two rows of brick, and is 2.80 metres wide and 2.75 metres high.

The Istanbul Gate, located at the junction of Atatürk Street and the walls north of İznik, has been renovated several times and is in good condition.

Key facts

Type: building, city gate
Part of: İznik Castle
Located in: Marmara Region

Facts from Wikidata.

Coordinates: 40.436722, 29.720545Open in Google Maps

Nearby places

Eşrefzade Mosque

The Eşrefzade Mosque in İznik, within Bursa province, takes its name from Eşrefoğlu Abdullah Rûmî, a 15th-century Turkish Sufi poet and mystic who died in 1469. Born to a family…

Hagia Sophia, Iznik

Hagia Sophia mosque (lit. 'the Holy Wisdom'; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Turkish: Ayasofya) in İznik (Nicaea) in Bursa Province, Turkey, was built as a…

İznik Türk İslam Eserleri Müzesi

This museum occupies the Nilüfer Hatun İmareti, a public soup kitchen and lodge that Sultan Murad I had built in İznik in 1388 in honor of his mother. After the founding of the…

Nicaea

Nicaea (also spelled Nicæa or Nicea, ny-SEE-ə; Latin: [niːˈkae̯.a]), also known as Nikaia (Ancient Greek: Νίκαια, Attic: [nǐːkai̯a], Koine: [ˈnikεa]) or Nice ( or ), was an…

Şeyh Kutbettin Mosque

This small restored mosque in İznik stands near the Yenişehir Gate, across the road and to the south of the İznik Museum, facing the Nilüfer Hatun soup kitchen and the Green…

Yeşil Mosque Iznik

The Green Mosque (Turkish: Yeşil Camii) is a historic Ottoman mosque, located in İznik, Turkey.

Sources

The text on this page is translated from: İstanbul Kapısı (tr.wikipedia.org), as of 11 April 2026

Text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.