[August 2012] The main place you should visit in Konya, Turkey is Mevlana museum.
Here, Jalal ad-Din Muhammed Rumi is enshrined.
He is a great Islamic theologian and a poet of 13th century who started the religion whose ceremony involves believers turn around on and on to get to ecstasy wearing long white skirt and cylindrical hat.
According to our guide, he was married with children, but he loved his male friend called Shams-e Tabrizi deeply and when he lost this friend, he started turning himself.
At the main part of the museum where you are not allowed to take photos, there are coffins of Rumi and others.
I remember some women praying in front of them, bending their arms and showing their palms upwards.
They reminded me of women praying beside the coffins of monks in the underground monastery in Kiev and a man making the sign of the cross on the boat every time when we saw monasteries in the Asos peninsular.
The objects which they were praying for are different, but their minds are probably similar.
