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). Teqe in Albanian is the Bektashi place of worship, its equivalent in Turkish Bektashism (Alevi) is Cemevi.
  • Fatih Tekke, Turkish footballer