Tomb of Gül Baba

Budapest · Ungern · Historic building

The dervish died mid-prayer in 1541. Roses pushed up from his grave with no hand to plant them — and named the whole hill. Nobody knows where the roses came from.

Gül Baba, the dervish who followed Sultan Suleiman's army to Buda, is said to have died on 2 September 1541 in the middle of the thanksgiving prayer in the freshly captured church. The legend holds that he wore the rose as his emblem in his turban, and that rose bushes began to push up from the earth around his grave with no hand to plant them — which is why he was called Gül Baba, Father of Roses, and why the hill above is still named Rózsadomb, the Hill of Roses. The octagonal tomb on the slope is the northernmost Muslim place of pilgrimage in Europe. Visitors describe a heavy scent of roses inside the cool stone chamber even in midwinter, when not a single rose is in bloom in the garden outside. The rose garden around the tomb is replanted every year, and the scent inside the chamber is credited to it — by those who prefer that.

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Where is Tomb of Gül Baba located?

Tomb of Gül Baba is in Budapest, Ungern.

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