Şeyh Ahmed Buhara Sufi Lodge
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.
Prominent Features:
- 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.
