Opened 20 March 2001 | ||
Capacity 1,300 (main hall), 3,500 (total) Similar Güngören MYahya Baş Stadi, Defterdar Mosque, TurkuaZoo, Esenler Bus Terminus | ||
Bağcılar Olympic Sport Hall (Turkish: Bağcılar Olimpik Spor Salonu) is a multi-purpose indoor sports complex with Olympic standards located in Bağcılar district of Istanbul, Turkey.
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Its construction began in 1998 and the sport hall was inaugurated on March 20, 2001 in presence of the Belgian action films actor and former martial arts sportsman Jean-Claude Van Damme. The sports complex is owned by the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul. The main hall of the building is suitable for sports events such as basketball, volleyball, badminton, wrestling, handball, tennis, gymnastics, weightlifting, boxing, martial arts, fencing, table tennis and indoor soccer. It offers a seating capacity for 1,300 people. Additionally, there are also 8 halls for fencing, judo, taekwondo, karate, table tennis (2 halls), aerobics, gymnastics, weightlifting, boxing and wrestling. Its covered parking lot has a capacity of 800 cars.
International sport events hosted
Architecture
The sports complex with the dimensions of 110 m × 80 m (360 ft × 260 ft) is a mono bloc construction built on an area of 9,000 m2 (97,000 sq ft) having a total covered area of 46,000 m2 (500,000 sq ft). The six-storey building is covered by a double-curved roof having the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid made in space frame system. The appearance of the building is a rectangular form in natural stone with a dome designed as two merging thin-shell structures rising up through it.