{"id":365149,"date":"2010-02-25T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T02:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"1142 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-25T21:24:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T02:24:05","slug":"minyatur%e2%80%99s-nautical-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365149","title":{"rendered":"Minyat\u00fcr\u2019s Nautical Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\/turkey\/istanbul\">Istanbul<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/taxonomy\/term\/566\">Turkey<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/commercial-curiosities\/purveyors-curiosities\">Purveyors of Curiosities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grand Bazaar, or Covered Bazaar (Kapali\u00e7arsi) in Istanbul is a magical city within a city. With over 60 streets and more then 4400 shops, the world\u2019s first mall is a buzzing hive of activity, catering to the shopping whims of the some 400,000 people who might visit it on a given day. <\/p>\n<p>It also must meet the needs of the 25,000 shopkeepers who attend to them, and a couple of small mosques can be found tucked in between the many shops. Though built in the mid 1400\u2019s, the bazaar as it stands today is much the result of an 1894 restoration, following an earthquake. While most of the Bazaar has been given over to tourist souvenirs, the heart of the bazaar, the Cevahir Bedesten, is filled with beautiful antiques. It is here one can find Minyat\u00fcr\u2019s Nautical Instruments shop.<\/p>\n<p>A sort of steampunk emporium, it contains, among other items, innumerable sextants, globes, ship captain\u2019s spy glasses, the brass weighted boots from an ancient diver\u2019s outfit, and a bowl of \u201ctiger tooths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/DSC_1308.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Turkey | Purveyors of Curiosities The Grand Bazaar, or Covered Bazaar (Kapali\u00e7arsi) in Istanbul is a magical city within a city. With over 60 streets and more then 4400 shops, the world\u2019s first mall is a buzzing hive of activity, catering to the shopping whims of the some 400,000 people who might visit it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}