Meydan Collection

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

Bektashi Symbol in Haji Bektashi Veli Museum
A palihenk (large tash teslim - literally the stone of surrender or abandonment - to be worn on the belt) probably belonging to a Dede Baba / chief sheikh in Haji Bektash Veli Tomb Museum in Nevsehir

The Throne of Muhammed / Tahti Muhammet in the Meydan in Haji
A small throne of three steps, originally holding twelve or more candles. Among these candles, in front of them was a tall candle with a top shaped like a the crown of the Bektashi dervish

Alevi Semah in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey
" Alevi-Bektashi spiritual ritual dance performance called " semah" which has the meaning of sky, in the second courtyard of the Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey." Date

Haji Bektash Veli Cultural Centre
Haji Bektash Veli Cultural Center designed by Ozkaragoz in 1994 which is used for Alevi semah performances at the weekends. Date: 2012

Haji Bektash Veli Statue in Haji Bektash Village in Nevsehir
Guvenc Abdal Turbesi (Tomb of Guvenc Abdal), (Haci Bektash) at Hac?bektas, formerly Karahuyuk, a town and district of Nevsehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey

Haci Bektash Veli Cultural Centre in Nevsehir Turkey
Haji Bektash Veli Cultural Center designed by Ozkaragoz in 1994 which is used for Alevi semah performances at the weekends. Date: 2012

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

Ceiling of the second Bektashi Meydan in Haji Bektash Veli M

Ceiling of the Bektashi Meydan in Haji Bektash Veli Museum i

The mosque in Haci Bektash Veli Museum
In 1826 Sultan Mahmud the Second decided to close all the Bektashi Tekkes because the Janissary were all followers of Haji Bektash and several times had removed the sultan

Detail from the door of Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir
Detail of the top of the door called Akkapi ( white marble entranceway) with typical Selcuk motifs including a double-headed eagle

The door of Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey
Looking from the second courtyard to the third courtyard and to the tomb of Haci Bektash Veli and the Meydan of the Forty. Date: 2012

Detail from the Fountain Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehi
The fountain is situated in the second courtyard of Haji Bektash Veli Museum, which is called the courtyard of the dervishes

Fountain in Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey
The fountain is situated in the second courtyard of Haji Bektash Veli Museum, which is called the courtyard of the dervishes

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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