Visit the Mevlana Museum and the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

#AprilGoodDestinations2025 Visit the Mevlana Museum, the resting place of Rumi, the spiritual mentor of the Islamic Sufi sect and the founder of the whirling dance. About one million Muslims come here for pilgrimage every year. The Mevlana Museum covers an area of ​​more than 6,000 square meters and houses many priceless Quran manuscripts and prose poetry collections. At first I thought the whirling dance was a traditional Turkish dance, but I didn't expect it to be a form of spiritual practice. The whirling dance lasts for more than half an hour, with the right hand facing up and the left hand facing down, in order to receive God's blessings and pass them on to the world. The next stop is to visit the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. Although the museum does not look large from the outside, it is the archaeological museum with the richest collection of ancient artifacts in Turkey, and its collection is mainly centered on the artifacts from this land.