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Photo Gallery: A Tour Through Istanbul Part of the Places of a Lifetime series from Traveler magazine
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White-robed dervishes, members of the Sufi Muslim religious order, demonstrate their hallmark "ecstatic whirling" in Istanbul's Galata Mevlevihanesi, or Galata Whirling Dervish Hall.
Photograph by Phil Weymouth/Getty Images

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