Hüsamettin Yivlik Geleneksel Türk Sanatları Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

In 1883, construction began in Cağaloğlu on the Arif Pasha plot, which at the time belonged to the Ministry of Education.
As indicated by the tughra of Sultan Abdulhamid II above the entrance, it was completed in 1884 (Hijri 1302) as a two-story masonry structure.
The school was originally established to teach languages to clerks working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bab-ı Ali Foreign Affairs Bureau) and was converted into a Law School in 1892.
The building was subsequently used for educational purposes as the Darülfünun Physics-Chemistry Laboratory, Teacher School, and School of Fine Arts, and it is recognized as a first-degree historical monument.

The historical roots of the school date back to the Bab-ı Ali Translation Office in 1821 and the first Language School (Lisan Mektebi) opened in 1866.
The “Lisan Mektebi” building, currently used as Hüsamettin Yivlik Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School of Traditional Turkish Arts, is defined by its two-story masonry structure and Neoclassical façade.
The ground floor features round-arched windows, while the upper floor has flat-arched window arrangements.
Among the school’s alumni are notable figures such as Mahmut Cüda and Elif Naci, and painter İbrahim Çallı, an important name in Turkish art history, taught at the school.