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Plovdiv Old Town
Mevlevi Hane - the only dervish monastery of this kind, which is actually Muslim. It belonged to the Persian religious community of the Order of the Dancing Dervishes or better known as “mavlevii”.there was a Christian church. It is assumed that it was destroyed in 1410 during civil wars in the Ottoman state. It is believed that the Mevlevi order died out sometime in the early 20th century and that it was probably active across these lands for almost a century. The former complex included a house of prayer – a mosque, a hall for ritual dances of the dervishes, and residential buildings. At the end of the 19th century, the monastery was abandoned and only the hall for ritual dances survived. The building is now a restaurant
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