Tiled Pavilion
The architect of the Tiled Pavilion, which was built at the request of Fatih Sultan Mehmed as a part of the Topkapı Palace, is not known. The Pavilion is a monumental sample of Turkish frame house architecture with its structure having a hall in the middle and four rooms around it.
Having allocated to Palace Agas in 1737 for a while, Tiled Pavilion was used as the imperial museum in 1880 by making a couple of changes. The structure, which was transferred to the Topkapı Palace museum in 1939 and lost its function, was organized as a museum with the name of "Fatih Museum" where the clothes, weapons and imperial orders belonging to Fatih Sultan Mehmed are exhibited in consideration of 500th anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul in 1953. Tiled Pavilion, which was added to the Istanbul Archeology Museum in 1981, was opened to the visitors.
