Vefa is a neighborhood of Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

. It is part of the district of Fatih

Fatih

Fatih is a municipality and district in Istanbul, Turkey that encompasses most of the peninsula coinciding with historic Constantinople. In 2009, the district of Eminönü, formerly a separate municipality located at the tip of the peninsula, was merged into Fatih...

 and managed as borough of Mollahüsrev, inside the walled city. It belonged to Eminönü

Eminönü

Eminönü is a former district of Istanbul in Turkey, now a neighbourhood of Fatih district. This is the heart of the walled city of Constantine, the focus of a history of incredible richness. Eminönü covers the point on which the Byzantine capital was built. The Galata Bridge crosses the Golden Horn...

 between 1928 and 2008. It lies roughly northwest of the eastern section of the Aqueduct of Valens

Valens Aqueduct

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, and is rich of monuments, both Byzantine

Byzantine

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, like the mosque

Mosque

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s of Kalenderhane

Kalenderhane Mosque

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 and Vefa Kilise

Vefa Kilise Mosque

Vefa Kilise Mosque is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque by the Ottomans. The church was possibly dedicated to Hagios Theodoros , but this dedication is far from certain...

, and Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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, like the Süleymaniye Mosque. It is a picturesque quarter, home of the Vefa SK

Vefa SK

Vefa SK is a football club in Vefa, neighborhood of the Fatih district of İstanbul.-History:The club was founded in 1908 when Turkish football was legalized...

, one of the historic soccer clubs of Istanbul, and of the oldest Boza

Boza

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shop of the city still active.