The Manisa Mevlevi lodge is an old lodge of the Mevlevi order in the city of Manisa, used today as a museum.
It was built in 1369 by İshak Çelebi, grandson of Saruhan Bey, founder of the Saruhanid principality. It was repaired four times between 1664 and 1694. After a new Mevlevi lodge opened in the city centre in the nineteenth century it lost its importance, and following the declaration of the republic its ownership passed to the General Directorate of Foundations. It was repaired again in 1960–61, in 1982 and in 1999–2001, and is used today as an ethnography museum by the Centre for Research and Practice in the Turkish History and Culture of the Manisa Region.
The lodge is rectangular in plan and measures 27.60 by 20.25 metres. Cut stone, rubble stone and brick were used in its construction.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Manisa as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.7 °C in January to 28.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (137 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
