Sinan Çelebi’S Tűrbe - Sinan Celebi Tomb, Ohrid, Macedonia
At Plaoshnik, in the immediate vicinity of the Church of St. Clement, stands the Tűrbe of Sinan Çelebi, his burial site. It is of a fairly free architectural form and well developed due to the fact that there are two graves in it. Its basis is l-shaped and it belongs to the open type, supported by two square columns at each corner. The left part of the tűrbe is smaller, and it is the burial site of Hassan Baba, while the other grave is probably that of Sinan Çelebi’s brother or perhaps his son. According to certain sources, the child of Ana Tashula, a christian, wife of Dzeladin Bey, is buried in this grave; she allegedly strangled her child because she did not want it to receive the Muslim faith. The grave of Sinan Pasha with an inscribed funerary slab is in the larger, elongated space. The inscription written in arabic and decorated with a stylized leaf above it, states that Sinan Çelebi died on 19 april 1493. Today, this grave slab is at the institute and Museum in Ohrid. The tűrbe’s architectural features make it unique in Macedonia and make possible its exceptional blending with the surrounding landscape. It is a cult site for the Muslims who come to visit it in large numbers especially on 6 May, the religious holiday H’d’rlez/St. George’s day.
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Location: Ohrid, Macedonia
Photo credit: © Mihai Popa / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: balkans, celebi, eastern, empire, europe, fyrom, macedonia, muslim, ohrid, ottoman, ottomans, pasha, plaoshnik, sinan, tomb, Çelebi, űrbe
