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Kurban Bayrami, The Festival of Sacrifice

Every adult wealthy enough needs to sacrifice an animal during this annual religious festival

Kurban Bayram (the Festival of Sacrifice) is the most important religious festival of the year and a four day holiday in Turkey. It falls on November 27th 2009 (estimated).

This is a four-day festival when sacrificial sheep or other animals are slaughtered and . . . → Read More: Kurban Bayrami, The Festival of Sacrifice

Seker Bayrami,The Candy Festival

After thirty days of fasting, there is a three-day celebrations traditionally many sweets are consumed where

Seker Bayram (also known as Ramazan Bayram or Candy Festival) is known to the three-day feast to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

Children are bought new clothes and proudly display as they walk through the city. It is customary to visit friends . . . → Read More: Seker Bayrami,The Candy Festival

Ramazan in Turkey

During the month of Ramadan, you can see, mosques decorated with religious phrases

Ramazan in Turkey (also known elsewhere as Ramadan) marks the month in which the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed, and after 30 days of fasting, when one of the highest forms of Islamic worship are celebrated.

In 2009 it is starting Ramazan . . . → Read More: Ramazan in Turkey

Religious Holidays in Turkey

Festival of the victim, has one of the religious holidays in Turkey, its roots in the history of Abraham and Isaac / Ismail,

In Turkey, for religious holidays such as Ramazan can be a very exciting time, but will also have an impact on your vacation. Here we give the background to explain the most important religious . . . → Read More: Religious Holidays in Turkey

Relationship Between Shaikh and Dervishes

The relationship between Shaikh and a pious dervish is the bond that exists in our material world. The Shaikh is a person who as a guide in a Derivish `s quest for the almighty acts. For a dervish, Allah is the goal and the Shaikh is a link. The question may arise why agents must achieve a dervish to . . . → Read More: Relationship Between Shaikh and Dervishes

Customs of Whirling Dervishes

Dervishes wear tall conical felt hats, white dresses with full skirts and voluminous black cloaks over it. The hats symbolize the tombstones of their egos mean white robes, the shrouds of their egos and the black coats represent their worldly tombs. At the beginning of the ceremony, the black cloak is cast down, to signify their liberation from . . . → Read More: Customs of Whirling Dervishes

Being a Dervish

A dervish is a religious person who has made the like-minded “quest for the truth,” his most important goal and is ready, all other worldly desires and aims in this one central goal of life to sacrifice.

Dervishood is a total commitment and the price is one’s whole life. This profession, if it can be called, is still . . . → Read More: Being a Dervish

History of Whirling Dervishes

The Mevlevi Sufi order was the 13th Century by Mevlana Rumi Celaleddin founded. Mevlana means leader or champion and Rumi funds for the Sultanate of Rum

Rumi was the son of a famous Islamic preacher in Konya remain in 1240th Four years later met Mehmet Rumi Schemseddin Tebrizi, one of the disciples of his father, who had a great influence . . . → Read More: History of Whirling Dervishes

Turkish Whirling Dervishes

Whirling Dervishes performing their ritual

A dervish is a Muslim religious man, who like to get an apprenticeship in the occupation, which will bring him with eternal living. Whirling is one of the different methods, as used by the Sufis (Muslim ascetic) to closer you worship Allah (God). Whirling Dervishes to perform near the Mevlevi Museum in Konya . . . → Read More: Turkish Whirling Dervishes

Main Attractions in Uludag

The colorful history of Uludag is the reason for many of the city’s architectural specimens. It will also ensure the peaceful history of the undamaged condition of these buildings.

The Green Mausoleum, where the cenotaph of Sultan Mehmet I was kept, surrounded by a beautiful garden. The mausoleum stands apart for its blue tiles.
The Grand Mosque has a Seljuk . . . → Read More: Main Attractions in Uludag