LOCATION / AREA
Old Town
DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT
8.8km
DISTANCE FROM SARAJEVO BUS STATION
3.1km
Distance from the center
1.9km
NEAREST PUBLIC TRANSPORT STATION
Bus station Vijecnica - 278m
It belonged to the Mevlevi Tariqat (dervish order) which started after the death of the Islamic theologian and philosopher, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, author of the famous Mathnawi.
The tekke was first destroyed when Eugene of Savoy attacked Sarajevo in 1697.
It was rebuilt in 1781 by the Ottoman Governor, Vedžihi Pasha, only to be totally destroyed by Communist authorities in 1957.
The late imam of the Emperor’s Mosque, Hajji Hafez Halid Efendi Hadžimulić, who kept alive the tradition of expounding upon Rumi’s Mathnawi in Sarajevo, expressed his wish for the tekke to be rebuilt once more.
The new tekke was built as part of the Memorial Complex on Kovači, below the Yellow Fortress. Construction was financed by donations from the Municipality of Selçuklu in Konya (Turkey) and the tekke was officially opened in the spring of 2013.
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