Mevlevi Tekke Museum Famous located in the Turkish part of Nicosia near Kyrenia Gate. This place is relatively small and did not like all the other museums of Cyprus. The building itself was built at the end of the XVI century on the orders of the Governor-General Arap Ahmet Pasha after the Ottoman capture of Cyprus. He is the commander of the Turkish army and the Lala Mustafa Pasha, he belonged to the sect of Mevlevi.

Mevlevi Order or dancing dervishes, who were followers of Sufism - quite a popular course in Islamic philosophy was based poet and mystic Rumi. It was their ritual dances - Sema - they were called "whirling dervish": the sounds of tambourine and flute, they began to spin until it fell into a state of exaltation, believing that in this way attain union with God.

Order was very influential, and the monastery belonged to a large area: in addition to housing for permanent residents, ancillary facilities and a large garden, there were rooms. However, in 1925, Ataturk officially banned Sufism and simultaneously disbanded the Order, and the inhabitants of the monastery of Mevlevi had to leave it. The building was converted into a shelter for children, and then there were opened several exhibitions.

It is only in 2002, after an overhaul in the room was set up an ethnographic museum, which consists of only a few rooms. On the ground floor there is an exhibition in which the collected household items used by the dervishes, Rumi poem founder of the sect, musical instruments and paintings. Also, there is a large room that hosted the sacred dances of the dervishes. Next to it opens a passage leading to the 16 tombs of sheikhs.