Somuncu Baba Tomb and Complex

Somuncu Baba is one of the leading scholars and saints who grew up in Anatolia during the foundation years of the Ottoman Empire. Sheikh Hamid-i Veli, who was born in Kayseri in 1349 and known as Somuncu Baba, achieved superior degrees in mysticism and science. Somuncu Baba, who came to Aksaray (Şehr-i Süleha) on the return of pilgrimage, continued his science and guidance activities here until the end of his life and died in Aksaray in 1412. His grave is in the Ervah cemetery in Aksaray. The Somuncu Baba Cultural Center, built right next to the Somuncu Baba Mausoleum, has been designed as religious venues for faith tourism open to the public, and it reminds its visitors the atmosphere of Somuncu Baba's period with shopping units, a bakery and a wooden portico-roofed mosque with a capacity of 800 people, which reminds the Seljuk and early Ottoman masjids.