Changes After Construction
The complex, including the lodge structure together with the tomb, was revived during the reign of Sultan Mahmud II; in this process, a poetic restoration inscription dated 1816 (Hijri 1232) was placed.
The lodge structure has undergone restoration in the recent period.
Today, the lodge building is used by a civil society organization.
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The lodge is associated with the Naqshbandi tradition.
It forms part of a single whole together with the adjacent Tomb of Sheikh Ahmet Buhari.
The first tomb over the grave of Sheikh Emir Ahmed Bukhari, who gave the lodge its name, was commissioned by Murad III after his death.
The tomb has a marble-faced, octagonal plan; its dome is covered with lead, and the decoration is concentrated in the painted ornament inside the dome.
There are tall windows on each façade of the tomb; the interior decoration is seen mainly in the painted ornament within the dome.
The lodge was arranged as a component that forms a whole with the tomb in the adjoining complex.
