Konya

... In 1925 Ataturk saw the dervishes as an obstacle to advancement for the Turkish people so he banned them. In 1957 the Konya lodge was revived as a cultural association to preserve the historical tradition. For Muslims, the Mevlana Museum is a very holy ...

... in Gülhane in Istanbul. Many of the mosques, such as the Alaettin Mosque, lack domes and have perpendicular walls. Konya is a better organized version of the Eminonu Municipality of Istanbul. I like etliekmek (similar to Turkish pizza) ...

... next morning, on foot. It looked like only about 2.5 miles, but we quickly discovered that streets are very poorly marked in Konya! (We later realized that this seems to be true in most of Turkey.) Many intersections have no street signs, and many of ...

... we all carried few necessaries in Airbag & left our cases in Modern Palace Hotel. After about four hours hectic journey we reached Konya at 2.00 & keeping baggage in sat in Hotel, assembled for lunch at 3.00. Since all were tired after bus journey, no ...

... nbsp;the Whirling Dervish on their home turf. Upon arriving we found that you cannot, in fact, see the Whirling Dervish in Konya on a daily, or even weekly, basis, as I had previously anticipated and hoped. Only during the Mevlana Festival, which ended a ...