A monastery of dervishes, especially in Ottoman Turkey.
（尤指奥斯曼土耳其的）伊斯兰教托钵僧寺院
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The Mevlevi dervishes no longer walk through the doors of the three-hundred-year-old wooden tekkes on a weekly basis and whirl barefoot on the polished wood floors of the semahane.
Under the Ottomans they lived in tekkes or lodges, which were similar in nature to monasteries, and lived off alms.
Generally, this aid included the restoration of tekkes so that tekkes accepted the sovereignty of the state.
In many Sufi traditions, the tekke is the place of devotion and worship for dervishes of a particular Sufi Order.
In Kruje there are eleven tekkes and shrines, and one of the oldest is the Dollma Tekke located at the Castle of Kruje.