Demir-Baba-Tekke

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Frontal view of the Demir-Baba-Tekke, known as the holiest place for Alianes

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

history

The mausoleum is likely the final resting place of Demir Baba, a 16th century Alevi saint. The tomb itself is a heptagonal building made of local sandstone . It has a lower rectangular antechamber and is subject to a hemispherical dome that is 11 meters high. The tomb lies in the middle of the inner heptagonal premise. Built of brick and wood, the sarcophagus is 3.74 meters long and its head is oriented to the southwest. The sarcophagus is usually completely covered with gifts and is rarely shown to Alevi pilgrims.

The mausoleum was built in the 16th century on a presumably Thracian sanctuary from the 4th century BC. A cult complex ( tekke ) gradually arose around the Türbe. This included a holy spring, 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 its deteriorating condition. The mausoleum, the holy spring, a residential building and a low stone fence around the complex have survived.

The Demir-Baba-Tekke was declared a “cultural monument of local importance” by the government of the then Socialist People's Republic of Bulgaria in the 1970s . The mausoleum was not renovated until 1991-1994: the decaying floor was replaced with a new one, and the interior decorative elements (including 19th century murals ) were reconstructed.

gallery

  • Demir-Baba-Tekke viewed by the Austrian traveler Felix Philipp Kanitz in the 19th century

  • View towards the entrance of the mausoleum

  • Distant view towards the complex

literature

  • Катерина Венедикова, Диана Гергова: Демир Баба Теке - Българският Ерусалим . Агато, 2006, ISBN 978-954-8761-77-2 (Bulgarian).
  • Евгений К. Теодоров, Диана Гергова: Прабългарски и тракийски следи . ИК "Изток-Запад", София 2006, ISBN 954-321-299-6 (Bulgarian).
  • И. Георгиева. (Ed.): Българските алиани. Сборник етнографски материали. София 1997 (Bulgarian).
  • Диана Гергова: Сборяново - свещената земя на гетите . Български бестселър, София 2004 (Bulgarian).

Web links

Commons : Demir-Baba-Tekke  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Любомир Миков: Култова архитектура и изкуство на хетеродоксните мюсюлмани в България (XVI-XX ве . Академично издателство "Проф. Марин Дринов “, София 2007, ISBN 978-954-322-197-4 , p. 63-74, 120-125, 152-155 (Bulgarian).

Coordinates: 43 ° 44 ′ 21.8 ″  N , 26 ° 45 ′ 13 ″  E