The construction of the Haydarpaşa Campus building was ordered by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (reigned 1876–1909) in 1894. The building was designed by the architects French-Ottoman Alexander Vallaury (1850–1921) and Italian Raimondo D'Aronco (1857–1932). The rectangular-plan building covers 54 daa (54,000 m2) with an inner courtyard 80 daa (80,000 m2) land.
The opening of the School of Medicine, named Ottoman Turkish: Mekteb-i Tıbbiyye-i Şahane (literally: "Imperial School of Medicine"), took place by the sultan on his birthday on 6 November 1903. While the building hosted the Military Medicine School until 1909, it later served for a civilian Medicine School. It had a botanic garden with medicinal plants. It featured faculties of medicine and pharmacy. The school had an underground tunnel connection to the military hospital across it.
In 1933, with the reorganization of the higher education in Türkiye after the Atatürk's Reforms, the Medicine School was closed. The building was allocated to the Haydarpaşa High School. From 1983 on, the building was used by the Marmara University as a campus including also a Faculty of Medicine.
All faculties, colleges and institutes situated at the Haydarpaşa Campus were prefixed "Hamidiye" by a presidential decree in June 2019 after Abdulhamid II, the founder of the initial medical school.
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