Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

ANAS National Museum of Azerbaijan Literature held the next workshop.

Scientific worker of “Presentation and study of Ancient and Medieval Azerbaijan literature” department Leila Rafiyeva delivered a lecture on “Divan Literature Museum and Galata movlevi house”. The audience obtained extensive information about structure of the Mevlevi sect, its history, chanting and whirling rituals, dances, the sect's philosophy.

Galata movlevi house is being one of the largest movlevi house in Istanbul, known as the oldest Istanbul Divan Literature Museum had been Church of St. Theodore during Byzantine Empire, afterwards had become movlevi house in the time of the Ottoman Empire in 1491.

Workshop continued with discussions by museum employees – Dr. Philology Khatira Bashirli, PhD in philology Natavan Musatafayeva, Tutu Mammadova, Nazmiyye Yigitoglu, Tebessum Mukhtarova and others.

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