Since antiquity, cults, the representatives of the historical, cultural, and spiritual values of a society, have had a significant role in the formation of collective identity. In this context, cults build both individual memory and collective consciousness. Initially emerging with religious rituals, cults continue to exist within the practices of social life by changing and expanding over time. They also manifest themselves in various fields such as history, literature, music, and architecture. In literary works, cults undertake the task of reinterpreting the past with a literary language and passing it on to future generations. Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, a representative of Ottoman-Turkish culture, conveys history, music, architecture, religion, and the cultural growth around Istanbul through cults in his poems without breaking away from tradition. Beyatlı, who learned that (especially during his stay in Paris), being a nation passes through national memory, not only told this idea to people around him when he returned to Istanbul, but also expressed it aesthetically through cults in the poems he wrote. Yahya Kemal, in his poem named “Bayram Sabahı in Süleymaniye” [The Aid Morning in Süleymaniye], tries to attain religious discourse by starting from mythical discourses and to ensure the formation and continuity of collective consciousness within the Turkish-Islamic tradition. In the poem; he tried to carry the life of the nation from the past to the future with collective values such as cave-temple cult, ancestor cult, hero cult, earth mother cult, and mountain cult. Beyatlı, through cults, wanted to provide spiritual purification by reminding the power of God in the ‘Süleymaniye Mosque’ and on an ‘eid morning’, in a sacred place and at a sacred time, and on the other hand, to carry from the past to the future a moment when unity and solidarity between individuals were established and gradually strengthened under the shadow of this power.