Galleria Ice Rink is an indoor ice skating

Ice skating

Ice skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as lakes and...

 and ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 rink

Hockey rink

An ice hockey rink is an ice rink that is specifically designed for ice hockey, a team sport. It is rectangular with rounded corners and surrounded by a wall approximately 40 inches high called the boards.- Name origins :...

 located within the Galleria Ataköy

Galleria Ataköy

Galleria Ataköy, the first modern shopping mall in Turkey, is situated in the western suburb of Ataköy, Istanbul. It was built following the recommendation of then Prime Minister Turgut Özal, who was inspired by the shopping mall Houston Galleria in Houston, Texas, USA...

 shopping center located in Bakırköy

Bakirköy

This article is about a neighbourhood in IstanbulBakırköy is a neighborhood, municipality and district on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey. The quarter is densely populated, has a residential character and is inhabited by a middle class population...

 district of Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. It was opened in 1989. The rink is run by a the company "Galleria Buz Pateni Pisti", a subsidiary of the shopping mall.

The venue hosts all kinds of ice sports events in Istanbul including Turkish ice hockey leagues for men's, women's and junior's. It is home to the ice hockey club Istanbul Paten Kulübü

Istanbul Paten Kulübü

The İstanbul Paten Kulübü is an ice hockey sports club established 1987 in Istanbul, Turkey. The team participates in the Turkish Hockey SuperLig . Istanbul Paten plays out of the Galleria Ice Rink at Bakırköy, Istanbul. The club's colors are blue, white and red.The team won the TBHSL championship...

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By April 2010, the director general of the Galleria shopping mall announced that the ice rink will be closed to make space for additinal recreational places and new stores within the renovation project of the shopping mall.