What is "tekke"

Usage examples of "tekke".

Beyazit, but a tekke was certainly where the truth was taught, as the Karagozi perceived it.

The Galata Tower housed a Karagozi tekke, a place sacred to the Janissaries.

I just discovered that the Bayezit Tower was built smack on top of an old Karagozi tekke at the Eski Serai.

Maybe the fourth tekke is also one of the original lodges in the city.

Galata Tower and also the old tekke in the Janissary headquarters, now buried beneath the Imperial Stables.

But as for any Sufi tekke, abandoned or otherwise, they only shrugged.

He had supposed that a redundant tekke could become anything from a shop to a tearoom.

Yashim could make out shapes like the cloudy shapes he had seen under the whitewash in the Nasrani tekke that morning.

Pharru and Tekke Shesim, the Moments of Forgotten Snow and of Memory, came together and made ice storms.

And when it fell, it was only the monks of Tekke Vogu, the Moment of the Hidden and Lost, who escaped.

Every monk of Tekke Vogu was enfolded within the Moment, but it was a bargain.

Qurabin reached out and gripped Jacobs the ambassador and whispered what must be the last word left to the renegade Tesh, stepped back into a true secret, a hidden place, into the domain of Tekke Vogu.

Even though their dress indicated that they were of the local Tekke tribe, not raiders from a hostile Turkoman band, Ross felt a prickle of disquiet.

Farther down another was made in front of the village of Krithia, and the remaining four attempts were on beaches stretching round the point of the peninsula from Tekke to Morto Bay.

British troops who got within a few hundred yards of Krithia on the 28th maintain their position, and the result of this first attempt was to give us possession of the extremity of the peninsula from a mile above Eski Hissarlik inside the Straits to three miles above Tekke on the Aegean, and of an exposed ridge of cliffs at Anzac.