Balim Collection (page 2)

Detail from the mosque in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevseh
Decorative detail from the mosque in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey. Date: 2012

Entry of Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey
The second courtyard of the Haji Bektash Museum in Nevsehir Turkey. Date: 2012

The main door of Haji Bektash Veli Museum
The threshold of the dervish monestry is called the sky threshold, a spiritual journey within oneself begins with this exoteric door. Date: 2012

The six point star diagram on the Fountain of the Three in H
The six point star diagram, Star of David or Solomon, on the Fountain of the Three (Uclar Cemsesi), as Irene Melikoff, a great scholar of the Bektashi who the Bektashi accepted

Detail of the door of Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey Date: 2012

Fountain
" The fountain of the Three (Ucler Cesmesi) in the first courtyard of the Haji Bektash Museum in Nevsehir Turkey. It was built by Haji Feyzullah Baba who was the head of the dervish monastry in

Post from Bektashi Meydan
" In the meydan (" sacred space" ) of the Bektashi Sufi order are 12 " posts" ( Turkish meaning usually a skin, normally a sheepskin)

The door of Balim Sultan Tomb in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in
Decorative detail from the tomb of Balim Sultan Tomb in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey. Date: 2012

The second door of Balim Sultan Tomb
" The second door of Balim Sultans Tomb in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehit Turkey. Balim Sultan is known amongst the Bektashi as the second founder of the order (Turkish Pir Thani)

Grave Stone of a Bektashi Baba s
Tomb of a great Dedebaba or a Baba on the right approaching the entrance of Balim Sultan Tomb. Date: 2012

The tree in front of Balim Sultan Tomb
Outside the door of the Balim Sultan Tomb, there is a black mulberry tree said to have been thrown as a burning brand from Horosan by Ahmet Yesevi, which determined where Haji Bektash was to go

The Graveyard next to Balim Sultan Tomb
Bektashi graveyard next to Balim Sultans Tomb in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey. Date: 2012

Balim Sultan Tomb Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turke
" Balim Sultan is known amongst the Bektashi as the second founder of the order (Turkish Pir Thani). The present-day initiation service of a Bektashi is sometimes called " The Method of

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