The New International Encyclopædia/Tekiye

​TEKIYE, tā̇-kẽ′y𝑒. A Mohammedan monastery inhabited by dervishes (q.v.) or other ascetics. It is usually built about a court inclosed by a colonnade, beyond which are the chambers, sometimes covered with domes. Well-known examples are the tekiye of the dancing dervishes at Pera and the one built near Damascus by Sultan Selim in 1516.

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