Dervish Lodge Museum
Restored Seljuk-era domed hall where Mevlevi dervishes performed the whirling sema ceremony.
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This guide to the Dervish Lodge Museum in Antalya opens on the sound of a whirling sema ceremony that once filled this thirteenth-century Seljuk domed hall, one of the earliest Mevlevi lodges in Anatolia. It traces the order back to the mystic poet Rumi and his son Sultan Veled, and describes the white robes, tall felt hats and small rooms where dervishes lived, studied and played the ney and rebab. Stand still in the domed hall and notice what it does to even the smallest sound.
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