The Istanbul district of Eyüp is widely considered to be one of the city's most important religious centers. Yet its history over the past 30 years challenges simple characterizations of the neighborhood as being defined only by its central mosque complex of Eyüp Sultan. While the mosque and its tomb of Ebâ Eyyûb el-Ensârî are unquestionably an important source of the neighborhood's identity, an equally important site in the social life of Eyüp is its high school, Eyüp Lisesi. Over the past thirty years, debates about whether one should refer to the neighborhood –– and its high school in particular -- as "Eyüp" or "Eyüp Sultan" have played a prominent role in broader ongoing arguments about the neighborhood's identity and its appropriate social norms. Arguments about whether the neighborhood should be known as Eyüp or Eyüp Sultan are not simply about the 'right' name; they are also arguments about the neighborhood's past, its future, and about the other local, national, and global places to which Eyüp (Sultan) is linked. Naming this place "Eyüp" or "Eyüp Sultan" articulates different histories that in turn authorize different social norms in the present and encourage particular visions of the future. Drawing on both archival and ethnographic work, this presentation argues that these debates over Eyüp (Sultan) both help us understand in greater detail the importance of narratives of place in urban life and challenge analyses framing this naming only in terms of an opposition between the secular and the religious. Weaving together ideas about citizenship, the multiple histories of a place, and Eyüp's shifting relationship to the world beyond, these ongoing arguments about Eyüp (Sultan) give us some sense of the intimate encounters between people that render the urban meaningful.