Afyon · Turkey

Mevlevihane Cami

Religiousgoogle verified

~30 min

easy

7/10

contemplative

This 13th-century Seljuk creation was a dervish lodge when Sultan Veled (son of dervish founder Celaleddin Rumi) made Afyon the empire's most important Mevlevi centre after Konya. Today's mosque (1908), rebuilt for the ill-fated Sultan Abdülhamid II, has twin domes and twin pyramidal roofs above its