Changes After Construction
It was built on the site known as Kazancıoğlu Garden, which was used by the Ottoman sultans as a hunting ground and private recreation area.
The building, which stands within the one-and-a-half-kilometre chain of buildings and palaces stretching from Beşiktaş to Ortaköy and now known as the Feriye Palaces, is one of the annex buildings of Çırağan Palace.
During the Ottoman period, the building was used as the Aides-de-Camp Building within the Çırağan Palace complex, and it suffered heavy damage in the fire that broke out in 1910.
After the fire, the structure, of which only the exterior façade was preserved, was shown as the Infantry Junior Officers’ School in Engineer Necip Bey’s 1918 Atlas of Istanbul.
Today, the building is used as Ziya Kalkavan Maritime Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, and it has a two-storey seafront building and a large garden.
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It is Turkey’s first maritime school.
The ship mast in the garden of the building is the main mast of the S/S İzmir, which belonged to the General Directorate of State Maritime Lines and Ports Administration and was scrapped in 1950; it is also the symbol of the present school.
The Ship Electronics and Communication Department, established in the 1983–1984 academic year, was the first branch opened in this field in Türkiye.
In 2018, the school received the status of the first project school in the field of maritime studies approved by the Ministry of National Education.
