Founded in Konya in the middle of Anatolia at the end of the XIIIth century, The Mevlevî Order or Mawlawiyya soon spread to other Anatolian cities. Throughout history, Mawlawiyya has been in demand from all segments of society with its lodges, which are centres of music and art, with an understanding of the order adorned with poetry, music and sema and in the middle of the XVIth century, it reached the villages. Mevlevî lodges were established from Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Azerbaijan within the Ottoman borders to Peçu in Europe. In time, the order, which was drawn from villages to towns and then to cities, was affected by the political, social and economic troubles of the Ottoman Empire, and by the XIXth century, the number of Mawlawiyya who excelled in science, art, music and poetry in Mawlawi lodges decreased. When the Republic of Turkey, which replaced the Ottoman Empire, decided to close the dervish lodges in 1925, all Mevlevi dervish lodges were closed, as were all other dervish lodges within the borders of the Republic of Turkey. Mevlânâ Dervish Lodge was turned into a museum. With the closure of the Mevlevî dervish lodges, the last sheikhs in these dervish lodges were dismissed from their duties, their sources of income, their foundations, were taken away from them, and they were only allowed to stay in the harem apartments of the Mevlevî dervish lodges until they passed away. Some of the Mevlevî sheikhs, whose duties ended and who lost their income, took on various tasks, while many others tried to earn their livelihood through different occupations. In this article, we have been attempting to reveal the life stories of Mevlevî sheikhs after 1925.