Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul

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1. Story
2. The European terminus of the Ottoman Oriental Railway and the arrival point of the through Orient Express, built between 1888 and 1890 by the Prussian architect August Jasmund — sent to Istanbul to study Ottoman architecture and staying to teach at the School of Polytechnics — and opened on 3 November 1890 under the name Müşir Ahmet Paşa Station. Its style mixes orientalist motifs with neoclassical symmetry, which is exactly what a European railway company building an eastern terminus for European passengers would commission. It has been out of main-line passenger use since the Marmaray works and now houses a railway museum and cultural venue. Note the sequence, which is often reported backwards: the 1883 train did not arrive here, because the building did not yet exist.
3. Knowledge
4. Istanbul
5. Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
6. Connections
7. Orient Express
8. Istanbul
9. Sirkeci Terminal opens as the European terminus at Constantinople
10. Orient Express
11. Constantinople
12. Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
13. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
14. Sirkeci Terminal opens as the European terminus at Constantinople
15. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
16. Evidence
17. Supports Sirkeci Terminal's construction between 1888 and 1890 by August Jasmund, its opening on 3 November 1890 under the name Müşir Ahmet Paşa Station, and its present use as a railway museum and cultural venue. V55 verification basis: substance carried in an attributed search summary; the article was not fetched and no TCDD or Turkish heritage-register record was consulted.