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Bâb-ý Hümâyûn / Imperial Gate
 Sur-u Sultanî that is built together with the construction of the palace by Fatih Sultan Mehmed and seperates the palace from the city. It is entered through Bâb-ý Hümâyûn.
Another name for the Bâb-ý Hümâyûn is Imperial Gate. Above the door, there is a celi-sülüs style caligraphic inscription by Ali bin Yahya Sofî with a date of 1478. Seeing that there are Mahmut II and Abdülaziz The Sultan’s signatures below the inscription; we infer that the door has been repaired a few times.
At the both sides of Bâb-ý Hümâyûn, there are small rooms for the gatekeepers. Above the door, there used to be a manor house style small flat built by Fatih for himself which couldn’t survive to present day because of the fire in 1866. actual importance of the upstairs is its being used as Beytül mâl (Kapý arasý hazinesi). The place which is related to the Muhalefat ( possession of the caliphate ) system; suggesting taking the possession of the legacy from decedent villeins of the sultan or the decedents who doesn’t have a heritor, has been used as to keep the goods which are not yet taken to the treasury of the sultan.
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