Budapest has many Turkish monuments, as Turkish rule lasted almost 150 years in the country. Not only our language and our facial features, but also our towns and cities have Turkish memories. The Turkish tomb of Gül Baba is a 16th-century Turkish burial chapel on the Rózsadomb in Budapest. Gül Baba, the Father of the Roses, was a Bektas dervish, or warrior Muslim monk who arrived in Buda with the invading Turkish army in 1541.[1] According to legend, he died on the day of the city's conquest, 2 September 1541, during a thanksgiving service in the Church of the Assumption, which had been converted into a mosque. An ornate funeral was held in his honour, attended by Sultan Suleiman I himself, and legend has it that he was one of the pallbearers. The turret over the tomb of Gül Baba was built between 1543 and 1548 by Mehmed Jahjapasazade, the 3rd Pasha of Buda. The site has been a pilgrimage site for Muslims and a regular tourist destination ever since.
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