The Silahtarağa Power Station was a coal-fired thermal power station located in Istanbul, Turkey. Ottoman Empire's first power plant, it served from 1914 to 1983. The site was converted into a university campus with two museums and several facilities for different purposes. It is renamed SantralIstanbul and reopened in 2007.


This is the control room of the Silahtaraga Power Plant, which was the first power station built in Istanbul in the period of the Ottoman Empire. It provided the city’s electricity since 1911 to 1983. It is located at the tip of the Golden Horn. Nowadays, it was transformed into a center for culture and arts.
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