Demir Baba Teke

The Demir Baba Tekke - ( Bulgarian Демир баба теке, Turkish Demir Baba Tekkesi ) is a mausoleum alianisches ( türbe ) from the 16th century near the village Sveshtari, in Munizip Isperich in the province Razgrad in northeast Bulgaria. As part of the historical and archaeological site Sborjanowo the Demir Baba Tekke - 100 is one of the tourist objects in Bulgaria.

History

The mausoleum is probably the last resting place of Demir Baba, an Alevi saint from the 16th century. The grave itself is a heptagonales building of local sandstone. It has a lower rectangular antechamber and is subject to a hemispherical dome which is 11 meters high. The grave is located in the center of the inner heptagonal premise. Built of brick and wood, the sarcophagus is 3.74 meters long and is aligned with the head to the southwest. The sarcophagus is completely covered in the rule of gifts and is rarely shown Alevi pilgrims.

The mausoleum was built on a Thracian sanctuary probably from the 4th century in the 16th century BC. A cult complex ( tekke ) gradually came into existence around the Türbe. For this was a holy well, a mosque, which was mentioned by travelers in the 18th and 19th centuries, but then destroyed, and a wooden public kitchen ( imaret ), which was torn down in 1976 due to the deteriorated condition. About Lasts have the Mausoleum, a holy spring, a house and a low stone fence around the complex.

The Demir Baba Tekke - was declared in the 1970s by the government of the then Socialist People's Republic of Bulgaria to the " cultural monument of local importance ". The mausoleum was renovated in the years 1991 to 1994: The decaying floor was replaced with a new one, and the inner decorative elements (including murals from the 19th century ) were reconstructed.

Gallery

Looking towards the entrance of the mausoleum

Remote view towards the complex