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Mevlâna Museum

Meram district, Turkey · built 1926

The Mevlâna Museum (Mevlânâ Müzesi), in Konya, Turkey, started life as the dervish lodge (Tekke) of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes. It houses the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (Celaleddin-i Rumi), a Persian Sufi mystic.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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