[4] When the Rifa'i Sufi Muhammed Maʿrifî came to Istanbul with his murids, he settled in the Çavuşoğlu (now Kordonboyu) neighborhood of Kartal in a stone house built in 1818.

[5] During the time when the tekke complex was active, it included a semâhane (place for sama), a sheikh cell, a fukarâ (fakir) cell, an edebhâne (toilet), an abdesthâne (place for ablutions), two fevkânî (upper rooms), a tahtânî (lower room), a kitchen, and a well for water.

[7] After the closing of Sufi lodges by the government in 1925, the family of the last sheikh continued to use the harem section, but the rest of the complex fell into disrepair.

In 1980, the tomb was repaired again, and a son cemaat yeri (portico), minaret, and shadirvan were added to the mosque.

He settled first in Edirne, or possibly Tekirdağ, then in Kartal, where he remained till his death in 1824.