Convent of Whirling of Yenikapı was reborn
General Directorate of Trusts has completed the restoration of Convent of Whirling of Yenikapı, which exerted influence upon the life of politics, of thinking and of art, and also which produced glorious composers such as Itri and Dede Efendi.
The conventicle that has got the greatest wooden dome of Turkey was reestablished with classical technique of wooden. Graveyards, of which walls were destructed were tidied up, and tombstones were overhauled. Weeping willows, wisterias and roses were planted in its garden.
Convent of Whirling of Yenikapı, which was founded in 1597 in the town of İstanbul called Zeytinburnu, in the opposite of walls of Topkapı, in the District of Merkez Efendi was the greatest centre of the sect of Mevlevi in the capital city of Ottoman Empire. As a result of the fires that occurred, its library, which owned the greatest bibliotheca of the reign of the Ottomans was burnt down in 1909; its conventicle was burnt down in 1861; and in 1997, due to the fire that occurred in the main building, collection of its buildings disappeared.
Convent of Whirling of Yenikapı, which was located on 77-acre-field when it was first established still owns 7-acre-field, which is left from 77-acre-field although demolitions and dispossession for public utility were carried out around it.
The building of conventicle, which has got closed areas of 900 square meters totally, and which was rebuilt in wooden will open its doors on the 30th of September, the date which is the 8th centenary of the birth of Mevlana.
In the collection of the buildings will there be Mevlevi Cultural Museum of Istanbul as well as the conventicle. A great number of historical objects relevant to the sect of Mevlevi in the archives and stores of the Trusts will be uncovered.
