Haci Bektas Veli Museum

Haci Bektas Veli is the practitioner of Hoca Ahmed Yesevi’s doctrines in Anatolia. Bektashism, philosophy of Haci Bektas Veli reached beyond Anatolia, in the Middle East and the Balkan countries. In a hilarious way, Haci Bektas inspired the Human Rights Declaration of the United Nations in 1948, when he gave us his messages and teachings about Love-God-Man and Humanity. 

Most likely in the years between 1243 and 1248, in Khorasan, Haci Bektas-i Veli was born to Seyyid Ibrahim Sani and his wife Hatern Hatun. His parent's teachings built him an enlightened mind and vision. Then after his studies under the supervision of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi to mathematics and physics along with literature and philosophy. Then comes the role of Sheik Lokman Perende, Ahmet Yesevi's students and successor, he studied mysticism. His study to the Islamic mystic, he started to seek the path of the infinite love inside his heart, then came his visit to Mecca in the pilgrimage, then heading to Syria, Persia, and Iraq. This long journey formed a special spiritual figure coming back to Anatolia.