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Kayışdağı station

metro station in İstanbul, Turkey

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ107050624 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kayışdağı is an underground station on the M8 line of the Istanbul Metro. It is located under Dudullu Street in the Kayışdağı neighborhood of Ataşehir. It was opened on 6 January 2023.

Station layout

Operation information

The line operates between 06:00 and 23:00 and train frequency is 8 minutes and 40 seconds. The line has no night service.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kayışdağı station” as metro station in İstanbul, Turkey. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2023. The account is most persuasive where Kayışdağı, station and metro can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as metro station in İstanbul, Turkey. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107050624. Authority coordinates are 40.985, 29.138. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kayışdağı station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kayışdağı station primary sources, Kayışdağı station archive and Kayışdağı research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kayışdağı station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kayışdağı station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.