Konya Mevlana Museum And Sille Aya Helena Church Daily Tour | All Turkey Tours

1 Day.: Konya Mevlana Museum And Sille Aya Helena Church Daily Tour

09:00 AM After Breakfast at your hotel in Konya, our tour guide will meet you at your hotel reception for Konya Mevlana Museum And Sille Aya Helena Church Daily Tour and continue to your day tour

Konya Mevlana Museum And Sille Aya Helena Church Daily Tour covers the sites as follow.

Mevlana Museum is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi. It was also the dervish lodge (tekke) of the Mevlevi order, better known as the Whirling Dervishes.You will visit all available section in Mevlana Museum such as Matbah (Kitchen), tombs, Tilavet Chamber (Quran Reading And Chanting), Semâ-Hâne (Ritual Hall).

Selimiye Mosque was commissioned by, and named for, Sultan Selim II (1566-74) in the Ottoman style. Construction began in 1558 when Selim was still a prince and was completed shortly after he became sultan, in 1567.

Sille Aya Helena Church has been constructed with smoothly cut Sille stone. There are rooms carved into rocks in its courtyard. The external nartex is entered from the door of the church opening towards north. 327 years A.D, mother of Byzantine Emperor Helena has stopped at Konya while going to Jerusalem for pilgrimage and seen the carved temples belonging to the first periods of Christianity and decided to have a temple built in Sille for the Christians. She has been present in the base laying ceremony of this temple, on behalf of Mihail Arkhankolos. The church has been repaired for centuries and reached today. A Turkish repair inscription written on the internal structure of the church with Greek letters provides information relating to the history of the church.

17:00 PM At the end of the Konya Mevlana Museum And Sille Aya Helena Church Daily Tour our tour guide will take you back to your hotel. Arrival will be the end of the day tour in Konya.