Hey there my Steemit friends! In this Travel Pro Places of Interest Series we focus on specific places of interest for a given location. This may come in the form of parks, museums, beaches, cathedrals, and much more. Always an interesting series and always informative!
What I love about visiting cemeteries as I travel is that it's a great reflection on a people and their culture. Every one seems to do things their own way and here in Beypazari Turkey it's not different. This was my first time visiting a Muslim cemetery and I really had no idea what to expect.
Beypazari is a small town of about 40,000 residents located an hour outside of the Capital city of Ankara. The climate here is quite dry and arid. The cemetery spanned across a hillside. To my surprise all the deceased were not necessarily buried underground, but instead seem to be buried in raised structures filled with dirt, basically flower beds and many of them had flower growing out of the top of them. I've been to a lot of cemeteries around the world and it was my first time seeing anything like this.
Unlike a Christian or Catholic cemetery there were no crosses, statues of arch angels, or really much in terms of religious signs in general. In fact I did see one sign, and it was sticker on the side of one of these raised sarcophagus flower beds of the company who does this kind of work!
A lot of the names of the deceased had the work Turk mixed in somewhere as well. Also the dates seemed very odd, like they were using a totally different calendar so often it was hard to tell when they lived and died. Well, come see for yourself and let's have a look around in this short two part series of the Cemetery in Beypazari Turkey.
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