Koca Murat Reis Camii
Shaded Ottoman cemetery and abandoned mosque where a corsair admiral's tomb once drew sailors seeking luck.
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This guide to the walled garden of Koca Murat Reis in Rhodes centers on the Barbary-born Ottoman admiral buried here after rising to fame under Suleiman the Magnificent. You'll hear how sailors crossing from Anatolia came seeking luck at sea, arriving with lamps and offerings and slaughtering animals beside the grave to feed the poor. The guide also follows the mosque that later rose beside the tomb, and the eucalyptus-shaded cemetery of carved marble turbans scattered loose in the paths today. Look down as you walk; you may be stepping past a stone hat toppled off its grave.
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