Halveti Teqe, Berat, Sufi spiritual center in Berat, Albania.

The Halveti Teqe in Berat is a Sufi lodge completed in 1782, with a square prayer hall, a small room for special services, and a five-column stone portico. The portico columns were taken from the ancient Greek city of Apollonia. Inside, a wooden mafil and a mihrab with stone stalactites stand beneath a wooden ceiling painted in a Baroque style and covered with 14-carat gold plates.

Ahmet Kurt Pasha built the tekke in 1782 on the site of a 15th-century Bektashi tekke. It belonged to the Khalwati Sufi order, and a room attached to the prayer hall held the mausoleum of Ahmet Kurt Pasha and his son. Closed under Enver Hoxha's communist government after Albania was declared the world's first atheist state in 1967, it was badly damaged and its graves were destroyed.

The prayer hall contains eight frescoes showing houses, religious buildings, and landscapes that reflect how the community saw its world. A wooden mafil platform stands within for conducting ceremonies.

The teqe stands in Berat's Mangalem quarter beside the Sultan's Mosque and a caravanserai, so it is easily combined with those two monuments on foot. The entrance portico has five stone columns reused from Apollonia; look up at the inscription above the main door. Inside, the prayer hall is small and the acoustics are shaped by holes set in the walls below the frescoes.

The portico's five stone columns were taken from Apollonia, an ancient Greek city. Above the main door, an inscription honours Ahmet Kurt Pasha and the values of the tekke. The prayer hall's wooden ceiling is covered with 14-carat gold plates.