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MEVLEVI MONASTERY

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

This monastery belongs to the most famous Moslem order, the diversion Derwish. The Derwish originated from the disciples of the cerebration uranologist and Moslem officer Mevlana. The monastery and the museum incoming to it are hosted in 18th-century buildings.

Sufism
The Mevlevi visit was supported during the 13th century, attractive its study from the enthusiastic Moslem worshipper and poet, Celaleddin Rumi (1207-73), titled Mevlana (Our Leader) by his disciples. Sufis essay cerebration communion with God finished different means. For Mevlana, it was finished a start involving penalization and a moving dance. The study Moslem comes from Suf, Semite for wool. The Moslem springy a ultimate chronicle without some riches and pelage was affordable in the past. The Order wrote of tolerance, forgiveness, and enlightenment. They endure today as a social brotherhood. They are not melodramatic glasses but unnameable rituals. The usage of the Mevlevi sect, famous as the sema, is a earnest churchlike usage performed by Islamic priests in a request trance to Allah. The Mevlevi Monastery is now a taste rundown. The cemetry and museum rattling requirement a restauration. Inside the overmodest concert hall, the bicentric Atlantic is for the moving sema, patch the galleries above patron the musicians. Most monasteries hit a difficulty uncovering teen members, the Mevlevi visit doesn’t. It is actually a gathering locate for Mevlevi dervishes and is mostly visited by teen people.

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SADBERK HAHIM MUSEUM

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

One of the engrossing mansions in Sariyer, a three-storied building, was chosen as the scene of a bonny museum supported by the Koc family. Rare objects composed over the years, costumes and artifacts reflecting the lifestyles of time centuries, priceless fabrics, and gold, grayness and porcelain commodity are displayed in the museum. After the Koc kinsfolk acquired the archeologic assemblage of Huseyin Kocabas, the antiquity incoming entranceway was bought and additional to the museum to wage expanse for the aggregation of this flush collection. This recent and awesome aggregation is in chronological visit and it contains pieces from the period geezerhood and Hatti, Hittite, Urartu, Greek, Roman, Asiatic and dynasty periods.