Guide 26 of 29
The Galata Mevlevi Lodge Museum
İstanbul
Istanbul's first Mevlevi lodge: the ceremonial hall, the dervishes' rooms, the library and the cemetery in the garden. What a lodge actually was, and why the sema is prayer rather than performance. Eight stops, about sixteen minutes.
Stops8
Duration12min
Narrated inTRENFA
Part of the full collection
$29
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The Weeping Column
Hagia Sophia · northwest corner
That column is darker than the others. Because it doesn't belong here — it was brought from Ephesus. For fifteen hundred years everyone touched the same spot, which is why the brass shines.
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