Person in the Tomb
İskender Baba was a Sufi figure from the lineage of the Horasan saints and the Hacı Bektaş order. He lived during the 16th century and was a spiritual leader of the prominent Kaymakçı Lodge.
He was buried beside Yeniçeri Commander Mehmet Efendi, the founder of the Kaymakçı Lodge. İskender Baba’s tomb, along with the nearby menzilhane and the Hatibzâdeler Tomb, played a significant role in shaping the spiritual identity of the neighborhood.
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The tomb is a single-story masonry structure with a gabled roof. Its southern façade features three flat-arched windows.
Built of rubble stone, the tomb’s wooden roof is covered with tiles.
On the western façade, there is a rectangular window with a metal grille, which, along with the adjoining mosque, was restored by Sefazade Hacı Mehmet Efendi in the 1800s.
Inside are three wooden sarcophagi. The prominent one at the front belongs to İskender Baba; the others belong to Sheikh Mehmet Sadık Efendi and Hasan Efendi, a dervish of the lodge.
To the north of the tomb lies Hacı Abdurrahman, a khalifah of Kaymakcızade Sheikh Mehmet Efendi from the Halveti order.
