Aktekke Mosque

Aktekke Mosque (Aktekke Cami) is in the city centre of Karaman. The mosque is in the form of a social complex, as was common in that era. The complex includes baths, along with dervish cells in the mosque environs. There are cemeteries in its south and west areas as well as tombs and cemeteries inside. The great Turkish mystic and sufi, Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi, came to Karaman with his family in 1222, was married there and stayed for seven years. The structure is also known as the Mader-i Mevlâna Mosque, as the tomb of Mümine Hatun, Mevlana's mother, is in the building known as Aktekke Mosque among the public. On the left-hand side inside the mosque, built in 1370, there are 21 stone sarcophagi belonging to Mevlana's mother, elder brother, and other relatives.