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Dick Osseman | profile | all galleries >> Istanbul >> Regions - Bölgeler >> South of Adnan Menderes Blv >> Yenikapı Mevlevihanesi tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Regional Mosques | Topkapı kültür Parkı or Cultural Park | Bayram Paşa complex | Monastery of Stoudios | Naz Perver Sibyan Mektebi ve Haziresi | Near Yusufpa | Near Çapa-Şehremini | Baykal arrival | Yenikapı Mevlevihanesi | Aya Mina Greek Orthodox Church | Samatya Aya Yorgi Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi | Near Büyük Saray square

Yenikapı Mevlevihanesi

I find I do not have a special gallery for outside the city walls. In 2018 I first visited some graveyards outside the walls, then found myself in front of some recently built university buildings, and a complex that was part university, part a dervish whirling hall. I was kindly shown some of the buildings, the pictures I show here. I was informed that a Sema whirling ceremony is held here regularly.
The complex was built by the Janissary Scribe Malkoc Mehmet Efendi, a Mevlevi dervish. It was opened in 1597. A great poet Seyh Galip and one of the masters of Ottoman music, Ismail Dede Effendi, were educated here. It was a centre where Turkish traditional music and poetry were kept alive. It now houses the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, the Institute for Social Sciences, Islamic Studies Faculty and research centers.
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