The khānqāh, also called zāwiya, ribāṭ or tekke, is a building where Sufis gather for remembrance, teaching and communal life, and where travellers are fed. Many developed around the tombs of founders. They were centres of spiritual and social life across the Islamic world.
Khānqāh
A Sufi lodge, where disciples live, practise and receive guests under a master.
Also: zawiya, tekke, ribat