Kaşıkçışeyhler is a village in the

Göynük District Göynük District is a district of the Bolu Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Göynük.Bolu Province Bolu Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province in north-western Turkey, between the capital, Ankara, and the largest city in the country, Istanbul. Its area is 8,313 km,2, and its population is 320,824 (2022). The capital city of the pr ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. Its population in 2021 was 24. (2021).

The Kaşıkçışeyhler tomb

Ahmed Yesevi was a Sufi who was born in Sayram Town, located near the city of Shymkent in today's Kazakhstan. After completing his religious education, he settled in the city of Yesi (today known as Turkestan) in that region, and died there after many years of providing the people of the district with spiritual guidance. He sent some of his students to Anatolia: one of them came to Kaşıkçışeyhler, where he continued his studies and also taught spoon making to the people in the surrounding area. He and his wife were buried in the village. The village people built a tomb for them in the 1100s which has been maintained over the following centuries.

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Villages in Göynük District {{Bolu-geo-stub