Mevlevi Sema Ceremony in Konya, Turkey

The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony is a Sufi ceremony that symbolizes stages on the path to accessing God and contains religious elements and themes with detailed rules and characteristics. While this ceremony unique to the Mevlevi sect had no specific rules in Mevlâna Celaleddin-i Rumî’s day (deceased December 17, 1273), it began to be performed in a disciplined way from the time of Sultan Veled and Ulu Arif Çelebi. These rules were developed until the time of Pir Adil Çelebi, when they assumed the final form we have today