Whirling Dervish
Whirling Dervishes perform in the Hotel Saint Petersburg, Congress Hall
February 2008 / St.Petersburg
Jean-Léon Gérôme,Les Derviches tourneurs(WhirlingDervishes)
c.1895, oil on canvas, 72.5 × 94 cm, private collection, Houston
Posing in front of a teqe/ tekke/ zawiya in Tetovo, Macedonia. I believe this is the open-air structure of the Arabati Baba Teḱe of the Bektashi order, built in c. 1538,
c.1914