| The tekke was originally built in 1538 around the turbe of Sersem Ali Baba, an Ottoman dervish. In 1799, a waqf provided by Rexhep Pasha established the current grounds of the tekke. In 2002, a group of armed members of the Islamic Community of Macedonia (ICM), the legally recognized organisation which claims to represent all Muslims in Macedonia, invaded the Arabati Baba Tekke in an attempt to reclaim the tekke as a mosque, although the facility has never functioned as such. |