Old Topkapi Cemetery
- Type: Graveyard-Cemetery
- Culture: Ottoman
- Century: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century
- Region: Turkey, Marmara Region, Istanbul, Zeytinburnu, Maltepe (Zeytinburnu)
- Situation: Accessible
It is a small part of the cemetery that was divided into two by the street that passed through it during the ring road arrangement made in 1973. There are 240 Ottoman gravestones here. The gravestones removed from the area where the park was made were also brought here. The oldest one is dated 1625-1626.
The graves of Sarı Abdullah Efendi (d. 1660) and the poet Süleyman Nahifî (d. 1738-1739), one of the great Melami dignitaries, are here. The 35 or so gravestones in the cemetery, preserved above ground and surrounded by walls, bear witness to a historical event. These gravestones belong to Kethüda Yusuf Ağa, his family and servants who were killed in the Kabakçı Rebellion in 1807.1
1 Greater Istanbul History, Historical Muslim Cemeteries, v.5, IBB Culture Inc., 2015.
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Cite: “Old Topkapi Cemetery”, Cultural Inventory, March 17, 2026, https://kulturenvanteri.com/yer/?p=163798.