Eyup is a district located at the confluence of Kagıthane and Alibey streams on the end of Golden Horn. The area historically is very important region for muslims. This is because of the area reputed to be the burial place of Abu Eyup Al-ansari, a friend and standard bearer of the Prophet Muhammed. When Arab soldiers sieged Costantinople between 674 and 678, it is said Eyup was among the the leaders of first Arab army. He was killed and buried somewhere outside the city walls. About eigth century later, after the city was conquered by Mehmet II, Eyup’s tomb was constructed here. Then a mosque and a complex was contructed on the region where the tomb was constructed in 1458. The mosque most probably during the great eartquake of 1766 was destroyed and reconstructed during reign of Selim III on the same place in the year 1800.

The region because of being outside the city walls since a long time is used as cemetery place.