Tekke
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Tekke can refer to several things:
- The Tekke (Teke) are a tribe of southern Turkmenistan most famous for their horses, the Akhal-Teke desert horse.
- Khanqah, a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood, or tariqa. In Turkey and Turkish-influenced areas like Albania and Bosnia, similar buildings are called locally Tekke or Tekye (تكيه).
- Fatih Tekke, Turkish footballer
- Teqe in Albanian is the Bektashi place of worship, its equivalent in Turkish Bektashism ( Alevi ) is Cemevi.