Özet:

I am IV-II It is possible to see the earliest examples of the cemetery tradition in the Turkish culture of Central Asia, which can be observed from centuries, in the northeastern Anadolu, where it is in Kemah. It is known that these traditions of the Turkish pre-Islamism, with the acceptance of Islamism, have been formed in the new system of beliefs and thoughts and transformed into the turbe architecture. This architecture, in which the tradition is mixed with religion and its source comes from the art of the tent, is found from the first known example in Samarra in Central Asia and in almost all of the Muslim Turkish states in Anadolu. In this study, 9 tomb monuments in the center of Kemah district (Ali Baba Turbesi, Anonymous Kümbet, Behramşah Turbesi (Zaviyesi), Gözcü Baba Kümbeti, Aleksender Baba Turbesi, Melik Gazi Kümbeti, Midilli Baba Turbesi, Sancaktar Kümbeti and Togay Hatun Kümbeti (Imaret) have been studied and evaluated in terms of plan, architecture and decoration. It also focuses on the place and importance of the works in the Anadolu Turk-Islam architecture.