SU SARNICI

INBAYIRI CISTERN. Previously, water used to come here from Paşasuyu.

There's water below the hollow

A water cistern is a structure that stores rain water. There are two types, open and closed. The open one collects both rain and soil water. We know that many buildings in Izmit are waiting for restoration and there is also the "IN BAYIRI WATER CENTRAL" here. When the structure was examined, it was determined that it was completely built with bricks and occupies 250 square meters on the high part of the slope in the region. It was calculated that the cistern, whose water tank was thought to go down to about 50 meters below the ground, was able to store 1500 cubic meters of water when it was used..wooww The İn Bayırı Cistern, which has been recorded in the travel books of almost all travelers who visited Izmit throughout history, was also an inspiration for the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, who had the Basilica Cistern built in Istanbul, according to a rumor.