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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Konya pictures - Turkey >> Konya mosques >> Alaeddin Mosque >> Mausoleums of the mosque > Konya Alaeddin Mosque 005.jpg
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22-Aug-2018

Konya Alaeddin Mosque 005.jpg

Some of the eight cenotaph sarcophagi on the first floor of the ‘Kılıç Arslan Türbesi’; most of them are adorned with glazed tiles (with white calligraphic inscriptions on a blue background). They belong to the builder of the tomb (sultan Kılıç Arslan II, 1156 - 1192) and to seven of his successors which reigned in the late 12th and in the 13th century.

A cenotaph is an "empty tomb" or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek: κενοτάφιον = kenotaphion (kenos, one meaning being "empty", and taphos, "tomb"). In general, a Turkish ‘türbe’ has two rooms: an upper room where the cenotaph sarcophagus/sarcophagi were placed to be visited by relatives and followers, and a room beneath where the remains of the deceased were buried.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Agon Cultuur reisgidsen’ – M.Mehling, 1989 & Website of ‘wowturkey.com’.
One of some slides from early visits (1992 or 1996) that I scanned anew in 2018 and then edited with digital equipment.


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