The Bosphorus - Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City - page 453

these four aqueducts, together with several smaller ones, conduct the
water from various reservoirs scattered throughout the district and
convey it to the taksim at Egrı Kapı on the Sixth Hill, from where
it is distributed throughout Stamboul. Sinan was working on this
elaborate system of aqueducts during the years 1554-64.
SARIYER
Returning to the Bosphorus, we now sail on to Sarıyer, a very lively
village inhabited largely by fishermen and their families. The Sarıyer
fish market, the closest outlet for the Black Sea fisheries, is one of
the best and most colourful in the city. It is located right next to the
little harbour of the village, where the picturesque local fishing boats
unload their catch. There are a number of good restaurants on the
quay of the fishing-port itself.
One of the old mansions along the shore highway leading into
Sarıyer, the Azaryan Yalısı, now houses the Sadberk Hanım Museum,
a unique and rich collection of antiquities and Turkish works
of art, including beautiful examples of Ottoman costumes and
embroideries.
THE EUROPEAN SHORE OF THE UPPER BOSPHORUS
Those proceeding by road up the Bosphorus from Sarıyer will notice
a little roadside shrine on the side of the hill above the Bosphorus
just before coming to Rumeli Kavağı. This is the türbe and shrine of
a Muslim saint named Telli Baba, who is reputed to have the power
of finding suitable husbands for young women who pray there.
After their weddings the brides come here in their gowns to fasten
talismanic coils of silver wire around Telli Baba's tomb and ofer up
to him their prayers of thanksgiving. The saint's tomb is housed in
an ancient stone building that looks as if it might have been a Greek
church, perhaps once the shrine of a Christian saint venerated by
the local Greek mariners praying for safe return from voyages on the
Black Sea.
Two kilometres beyond Sarıyer we come to Rumeli Kavağı, the
last ferry-stop on the European shore of the Bosphorus. Above it are
the very scanty remains of a Byzantine castle, later taken over by the