The Mabeyn Circle is the last of the Harem places when entered through the Car Gate. It was called the Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn Department because it was located between the Selamlık and the Harem. One of its two gates, the Iron Gate to the Stone House with Pool..
Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn Department (I. Abdulhamid Department)
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The Mabeyn Apartment, built by Sultan
Abdulhamid Department I, adjacent to the Sultan Selim I Tower, is located on the Has Room front of the Ikballer Stone House and below the Presidential Efendi Apartment.
Sultan Abdülhamid I lived here with his family, and he used his Privy Room as a winter shelter.
The Mabeyn Circle is the last of the Harem places when entered through the Car Gate. It was called the
Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn Department because it was located between the Selamlık and the Harem. One of its two gates, the Iron Gate to the Stone House with Pool (to the palace); the other opens to Altınyol (Harem).
In a sense, it shows the feature of a circle separating the official places of the palace and the private places of the sultan. The apartment consists of a sofa and two rooms, one of which is called the Mirrored Room and the other is called the Stone Room or the Treasury Room.
The walls of the hall are decorated with floral-patterned Dutch tiles, and a beautiful rococo marble hearth is placed on one side. There is also a passage inside the closet, which provides the exit from the sofa to the Headquarters and is used for shuttle services.
From the Sofa to the Mirrored Room, one passes through a gap called the Stone Room. This room, which is thought to have been used as a cellar, actually survived from the Selim I Tower, which was built on the walls of the palace during the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim.
The Mirrored Room is used as a divanhane. It gets its name from the use of crystal mirrors instead of glass in the windows. Rococo decorations were used extensively in the decoration, which was enriched with mirrors. Stained glass, the famous art of the
Ottoman History, was used in the head windows above.
In the Mirrored Room, there is Hilye-i Hakani (the first hilye of the divan literature, which describes the physical characteristics and exemplary behaviors of the Prophet) written with gilding on a black background.
The tugra on the door of the Mirrored Room belongs to the builder of the building, Sultan Abdulhamid I. The Hijri date of 1193, which is at the end of the couplets in its inscription, corresponds to the year 1778.
Cevri Kalfa, II. He gained time by throwing ashes on these stairs on the rebels who tried to capture Mahmud, and with the help of the courtiers, he saved the prince by taking him to the roof.