Original Rumi pool removed at Konya’s Mevlana Museum

KONYA - Doğan News Agency

A decision to remove ancient stones from around a pool that is central to yearly Rumi celebrations controversy in Konya, drawing criticism from former official Erdoğan Erol who has demanded that the Council of Monuments rectify the situation, saying that the pool has a history of 1,000 years

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The Konya Provincial Culture Directorate removed the pool from in front of dervish cells as part of rearrangement works at the Mevlana Museum and placed a new one using the similar stones.

Officials in Konya have raised controversy just before events marking the 740th anniversary of Jalaladdin Rumi’s passing after a centuries-old pool in the garden of the Mevlana Museum was removed and rebuilt elsewhere with similar stones.

“Similar stones were used to build a similar pool in a different place,” said Erdoğan Erol, who worked as a director for the museum for 25 years before retiring. “In my opinion, this is a murder. It should be changed back.”

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