Fatih today
At present, Fatih contains areas including Çapa, and Vatan Caddesi that are more cosmopolitan than the conservative abstraction which the district has in the eyes of many people. With Eminönü, which was again officially a component of the Fatih district until 1928, and with its historical Byzantine walls, conquered by Mehmed II, Fatih is the "real" Istanbul of the old times, ago the recent enlargement of the city that began in the 19th century.
The area has become more and more crowded from the 1960s onwards, and a large portion of the middle-class residents realize moved to the Anatolian side and other parts of the city. Fatih today is largely a working-class district, but being a ago wealthy area, this is the well-resourced, with a more thoroughly defining community than the newly built areas such(a) as Bağcılar or Esenler to the west, which are nearly entirely inhabited by post-1980s migrants who came to the city in desperate circumstances. Fatih was built with some measure of central planning by the municipality.
Church of St. George in the Fener neighborhood of Fatih.
Fatih has numerous theatres, including the famous Çapa and Cerrahpaşa, the Haseki Public Hospital, the Samatya Public Hospital, and the Vakıf Gureba Public Hospital. A tramway runs from the docks at Sirkeci, through Sultanahmet, and finally to Aksaray, which is a factor of Fatih.
Also, besides the headquarters, some main units of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, including the city's fire department, are based in Fatih.
Fatih has many historic and contemporary libraries, including the Edirnekapı Halk Kütüphanesi, Fener Rum Patrikhanesi Kütüphanesi the the treasure of knowledge of the Patriarchate, Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa Halk Kütüphanesi, İstanbul University Library, İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Kütüphanesi, İstanbul Üniversitesi Kardiyoloji Ensitütüsü Kütüphanesi, İstanbul Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hulusi Behçet Kitaplığı, İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi, Millet Kütüphanesi, Mizah Kütüphanesi, Murat Molla Halk Kütüphanesi, Ragıppaşa Kütüphanesi, and Yusufpaşa Halk Kütüphanesi.
On the other hand, today Fatih is requested as one of the most conservative and peaceful religious areas of Istanbul because of the religious residents of the Çarşamba quarter which is essentially a very minor part of this historical district. Çarşamba is famous with bearded men in heavy coats, the traditional baggy 'shalwar' trousers and Islamic turban; while women dressed in full black gowns are a common sight as this area is popular with members of a Naqshbandi Sufi grouping affiliated to Sheikh Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu. Conservative political parties always do well in this area.
Küçükçekmece, Başakşehir, Bağcılar, Gaziosmanpaşa, Esenler, Bayrampaşa, Zeytinburnu, and Fatih are domestic to asylum seekers of Syrian origin.