Mimari konum ve kültürel/sanatsal değeri açısından Seyyid Ali Sultan Tekkesi

The first lodge of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, Seyyid Ali Sultan / Tanrıdağ Bektashi Lodge, also known as Kızıl Deli Sultan Lodge, is located in Dimetoka, Greece. The lodge was founded by Seyyid Ali Sultan in 1397 after the conquest of Edirne. This person, who has a very important place both in tradition and in the religious order, is mentioned in Gülbanks as "Seyyid Ali Sultan, the watchman of the Rumelia province". He was deemed worthy of the 'cook's hide', which is the second of the twelve traditional Bektashi hides. The dervish lodge also has the distinction of being the first land-owning lodge in Rumelia. Seyyid Ali Sultan Lodge is the lodge where Balım Sultan, who is considered the second patriarch of Bektashism, was raised. It was damaged by the closure of the Janissary Corps and Bektashi Lodges by Sultan Mahmud II in 1826 and the subsequent massacres. Within the scope of this article, the spaces and uses of the Seyyid Ali Sultan Lodge buildings are discussed in historical and artistic context. The places of the lodge are; The information obtained from written records, historical sources and on-site investigations has been tried to be presented based on visual materials and architectural necessity criteria. Dervish lodge; Today, the tomb, ritual house, guest house, soup kitchen (kitchen-slaughterhouse), Dervish houses (Pasha Mansions), Mehmed Dede Fountain and two fountains, the inscription of the fountain built by Es-Seyyid Halil, its graveyard and mulberry tree are still standing.