text: Before the Covid pandemic, Istanbul's red-light district could also be found in Karaköy. However, in 2022 it was announced that the streets once filled with brothels (and where there are still the remains of a synagogue) would be redeveloped as an arts district.
  Sites of interest
  Karaköy contains many churches representing the Latin Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Turkish Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Armenian and Bulgarian rites as well as a couple of Jewish synagogues. The Greek, Jewish, French, Italian and Austrian schools reflect its past cosmopolitan character.
  The curvy Camondo Stairs, off Voyvoda Street, were donated by the wealthy Sephardic Jewish banker Abraham Camondo (1785–1873) and built in baroque style.
  The large Galataport hotel, restaurant and cafe, shopping and office mixed-use development opened along the water in 2022.
  Museums
  Jewish Museum of Turkey
  Ottoman Bank Museum
  Note: The Istanbul Modern, Turkey's first private museum dedicated to contemporary art since 2004, moved to a new location in Galataport in 2022.
  Places of worship
  Churches
  San Pietro and Paolo Church, a Dominican church built 1604 by the Genoese next to their old Dominican convent, and rebuilt 1841–1843 by the Swiss Italian architect Gaspare Fossati, after having been destroyed twice by fire
  Sankt Georg Church, built 1675–1677 by Franciscan priests and restored 1908 by Austrian Lazarists
  San Michele Church
  San Francesco Church
  Santa Anna Church
  Santa Maria Church
  San Domenico Church
  San Zani Church
  Surp Sarkis Church built around 1360, the oldest Armenian church in Istanbul