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The Tomb of İsmail Fakirullah is a shrine located in the Tillo district of Siirt Province in Turkey. It was built in the 18th century by his student İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi after the death of Ismail Fakirullah. A mechanism in the tomb reflects the morning sunlight onto the sarcophagus for five minutes every year on 21 March and 23 September. The light mechanism lost its function during the restoration in 1960. The mechanism was made functional again with the work carried out in 2011. A model of the tomb is exhibited in Miniatürk in Istanbul. UNESCO added the tomb to the Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in 2015.
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