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Every year, Konya hosts the Whirling Dervishes Festival, thanks to which the small Turkish town became famous all over the world. Konya is the oldest religious center of the country where the most significant and beautiful historical holidays are organized. The unique festival usually starts in mid-December and lasts seven days. The organizers of this holiday are followers of philosophical teachings of Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.
The venue of the festival was not chosen by chance. Rumi, a great Islamic scholar and missionary who has a lot of followers among our contemporaries lived here in the 13th century. Followers of the missionary are called "dervishes". One of the main components of their main holiday is traditional dances. Dance rituals are performed in very beautiful fluttering white clothes, which gives them special spectacular. People dance to the traditional accompaniment of drums and flutes. Today, absolutely everyone is allowed to watch ritual dances.

The main feature of the festival is that within its framework current religious rituals are conducted by local monks. Only recently the Whirling Dervishes Festival has become available to the public. For hundreds of years, dervishes' rituals have been hidden from prying eyes. During the dance rituals, the monks are getting into a state of deep trance. Not just anybody can perform such an ancient dance. Locals believe that during the dance the monks become the real guides between God and humans.
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