The monastery of dervishes Photo: Monastery of dervishes

In Evpatoria is a unique architectural monument of the XV century the monastery of the mendicant friars of the Muslim religion, dervish Tekke. This is the only surviving intact monument of this kind in the territory of the former USSR.

The complex consists of three buildings: the actual Tekke, mosques and madrasas. Tekke is characterized by simplicity of its monumental forms, the lack of decorations on the facades and inside. Inside the monastery were located along the perimeter one-story vaulted cells of the dervishes. The room is dark and cramped, the floor is earthen. Lancet doorway of each cell goes into the hall. The building is covered with a flattened dome with a tiled roof. In addition to habitat dervish Tekke also served as a hospice home.

From West to Tekke much later was added a small mosque Sukarela Effendi, which now resemble wall and the Eastern wall partially collapsed minaret. Near the mosque is a building of the madrasah, which after the restoration work is the Museum of the Crimean Tatar culture.

Having existed for 300 years, during the persecution of religion in the 1930-ies tekie was closed and until recently was used as a storage room of the black sea fleet. In this period building tekie and madrasas in General preserved, while the mosque was half destroyed. In the last few years in the building tekie was carried out a small repair, but a full restoration is still not carried out.

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