Tekke from Zall

Back of the building with the green dome

The Tekke of Zall ( Albanian  Teqeja e Zallit ) or Asim Baba Tekke is a dervish - Tekke of the Shiite- dominated Sufi Order of the Bektashi in the southern Albanian town of Gjirokastra . The Tekke lies between the southern district of Manalat and the neighboring village of Lazarat .

Inscriptions on the Tekke refer to the year 1700. Other sources give 1780 as the year of construction, when Saint Üsküdarlı Muhammed Asım Baba , who descended from the house of the Prophet , founded the Tekke. Its original name was Great Tekke of Manalat . Âsım Baba came to Gjirokastra from Sulucakarahöyük near Hacıbektaş in 1780 . He was the religious leader of Kara Ali Dede from Dimetoka and died in 1796. His adjoining Türbe was well attended by the residents. The leaders of the Tekke were Asim Baba (1780–1796), Türk Hasan Baba (1796–1798), Ergirili Süleyman Baba (1798–1806), Ali Baba Gega (1806–1830), Hacı Yahya Baba (1830–1836), Turk İbrâhim Baba (1836–1845), İlbasanlı Hüseyin Baba (1845–1861), Hacı Ali Hakkı Baba (1861–1907) and İlbasanlı Selim Rûhi Baba (1907–1944).

The Tekke of Zall was the main tekke of Gjirokastra and a center from where Bektashism spread throughout Albania. Baba Rexheb , whose family had looked after the Tekke von Zall for decades, emigrated to the United States and founded the USA's first Bektaschi-Tekke there.

During the Balkan Wars and World War I , the Greek military was stationed in the Tekke for three years. It was restored in 1916 and subsequently used again by the dervishes. In the 1930s, twelve dervishes lived there. During the Second World War , homeless people were taken into the Tekke.

The Tekke also had a library that was destroyed by the communist in 1944. However, the church survived the ban on religion during the communist dictatorship. The building is one of the national cultural monuments of Albania.

Web links

• Entry in SmartCul2re (Albanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baba Rexheb. (No longer available online.) In: Taylor Tekke. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Zbulohen pllakat me mbishkrime osmane. (No longer available online.) In: Infoarkiv. BalkanWeb, January 19, 2014, archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; Retrieved August 1, 2014 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Stephan Doempke, Anduela Lulo, Sadi Petrela: Katër qytete historike në Ballkanin jugperëndimor . Ed .: Organizata për Ruajtjen dhe Zhvillimin e Gjirokastrës. Tirana 2012, ISBN 978-99956-747-4-8 , pp. 49 ( book as PDF [accessed August 1, 2014]).
4. ↑ Dr. Alim Yıldız (Ed.): Çeşitli Yönleriyle Kerbela (Edebiyat) . 2nd Edition. Asitan Yayıncılık, Sivas 2010, ISBN 978-6-05612678-9 , p. 405 ( book as PDF [accessed December 25, 2014]).
5. ↑ Baba Rexheb (Part 3). (No longer available online.) In: Taylor Tekke. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Baba Rexheb (part 4). (No longer available online.) In: Taylor Tekke. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Objects Fetare Monument Kulture. In: Komiteti Shtetëror për Kultet. Retrieved August 31, 2014 (Albanian). 

Coordinates: 40 ° 4 ′ 1.7 ″  N , 20 ° 8 ′ 57.2 ″  E