Known to the west as Whirling Dervishes, the members of the Mevlevi Order (named for their founder Mevlana) from Konya lived in what we might call coisters or monasteries - what to them was a Mevlevihane. The one at
Galata on the
European side of
Istanbul is a product of late Ottoman architecture, and quite elaborate in having a tomb, a
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