Prank of Bardakçı Baba

Şişli, Turkey

The Prank of Bardakçı Baba ("master glass maker" in Turkish) consisted of the creation of a fake tomb of a Sufi mystic who never existed, in Istanbul's Fulya quarter. The tomb, erected in the early 1970s as part of a prank and subsequently moved, rebuilt in lavish form and finally dismantled in the early 2020s, had become an object of popular piety in the district.

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