Inside Europe’s Mystical Sufi Lodges

 

Tekke in Tetovo
Tekke in Tetovo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Our friends Norma S. and Laurence Sutton visited in 2013 for a month Harabati Baba Tekke (Lodge) in Tetovo, Macedonia. They went after meeting Dervish Muttalib on our tour in 2012, Konya. Dervish Muttalib, the only remaining dervish living and serving in the ancient and urban Harabati Baba Tekke (Lodge) in Tetovo, Macedonia

 

Dervish Muttalib
Dervish Muttalib

 

Below are articles by Mehves Lelic is a professional photographer and writer from Istanbul. She is traveling throughout Eastern Europe to shed light on the history and everyday life of the Bektashis, an Islamic religious order that has faced persecution and extreme challenges throughout the turmoil of the region’s last century.

 

Inside Europe’s Mystical Sufi Lodges Part 1
Dervish Mattalib in Part II
Part III
Part IV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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