Tekkes
A Tekke (Turkish: تكيه tekke, tekye; Arabic زاوية zāwiya, pl. زوايا zawāyā; Persian درگاه dargāh bzw. خانگاه chānegāh und خانقاه chāneghāh) is a center of Sufi rituals and is also meant to serve as a place of protection, asylum and for retreat. The Tekke has often been compared to a Christian monastery.
Dhikr ceremonies mainly take place at tekkes, these ceremonies consist of the chanting of the 99 Names of Allah; in addition, a tekke can serve as a place of study or for other work.
Hashish Bins
In Greece, the hash den was known as a tekkes - from the Turkish tekke, meaning dervish convent - and the rebetes who frequented these dens sometimes referred to themselves as 'dervishes'. Hashish cost virtually nothing and was a poor man's way of forgetting life's troubles. There are songs aplenty celebrating the smoking of hashish (in fact two Danish rebetologists have produced a whole book of them, and a French company recently issued a record of hash-den songs).
Tekkedes were frequently raided, and if people were caught singing rebetika (or indeed playing the bouzouki), they were likely to be taken for dissolute hash-smokers and shipped off to internal exile. Many bouzouki players are said to have switched to the baglamas - a much smaller instrument - so they could hide it should the police raid their place.
