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Lighthouses of Istanbul and a view of one of lighthouses in Mega City Istanbul: Ahırkapı Lighthouse in winter (Turkish: İstanbul'un deniz fenerleri ve mega şehir İstanbul'daki deniz fenerlerinden birinin görüntüsü: Kışın Ahırkapı Deniz Feneri). The lighthouse is located in Cankurtaran-Eminönü, Fatih District of Istanbul, Turkey. It's near the Cankurtaran Train Station and takes about 5 minutes from the station on foot.

The Ahırkapı Lighthouse or Stable Gate Lighthouse is a historical lighthouse still in use and located at the southern Seraglio Point on the Rumelian coast of Bosphorus' south entrance, in Ahırkapı. Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I commissioned the building of a lighthouse, which was constructed by French engineers in Ahırkapı right outside of the city walls south of the Topkapı Palace in 1857. The masonry lighthouse has a conical shape and is painted white with one narrow black horizontal band. To the 26 m high tower, a keeper's house is attached. It is across from the Chalcedon Inciburnu Lighthouse (Turkish: Kadıköy İnciburnu Deniz Feneri), which is on the Anatolian coast of the strait at a distance of 2.8 km. A line connecting the two lighthouses marks the southern boundary of the Port of Istanbul.