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Mag'oki Attor

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Good morning 🌞❤️🌄 Welcome to my blog!!! Let's start!!!  Our last destination is Mag'oki Attor memorial complex. We have taken a lot of photos and selfiesas a sweet memory. Magoki-Attori Mosque, Bukhara The Magoki-Attori Mosque in the city's centre is an example of an urban mosque in a residential quarter. The mosque was built on the site of the pre-lslamic Moh temple mentioned above. Excavations have revealed the fact that even under the Samanids there was a six-pier mosque, which apparently was also domed. However, it was rebuilt substantially in the twelfth century; the floor level was upgraded and the main facade received a new design that survives with little damage only. By the sixteenth century, the thickness of cultural layers had increased so much that mosque seemed to sink deep into the soil and its facade was unearthed only as a result of excavations carried out in the 1930s. The facade of the mosque is asymmetrical. To the right it has a portal with a recessed

Toqi Telpakfurushon

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Good morning 🌞🌅 ❤️ Welcome to my blog!!! Today we have visited to Toqi Telpakfurushon with our group and our teacher Dilnoza Ilhomovna. Toqi Telpak Furushon (in some sources - Taqi Telpakfurushon) is one of the preserved traditional indoor bazaars of Bukhara. It was built in 1570-1571 under Abdullah Khan II, one of the rulers of the Shaibanid dynasty. It was the Shaibanids who began to make Bukhara an important commercial centre, situated at the crossroads of many caravan routes. The symbol for the achievement of this goal were the trade domes that gathered traders from different parts of the world under their roofs. Telpakfurushon mountain ( Persian Telpakfurushlar mountain) is an architectural monument in Bukhara ( 16a ). Domed building intended for production and sale of headwear . According to the foundation documents , it was built at the intersection of 5 streets connecting from different sides ( 1570-71 ) . The building was named after Akhanin, Toqi Kitabfurushon, Toqi Khoja M

Toqi Zargaron

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 Good morning 🌞❤️🌄 Welcome to my blog!!! Today is Wednesday, the eighth day of our practice session. We have visited to Toqi Zargaron. The Tak-i Zargaron is a multiple dome-covered market located at the intersection of the primary east-west and north-south streets of Bukhara's center city (Shahristan). The largest and best preserved of Bukhara's once numerous crossroad markets (chorsu), its name translates to "The Dome of Jewelers or Goldsmiths", which conflicts with its traditional function as a textile market. Although no single patron or inaugural date is recorded, passages in Arab historian Zain- ud Din Wofisi's (1485-1551) 'Badaye' al-Vaqaye' suggest an early sixteenth century date under Timurid instead of the popularly believed Shaybanid patronage. Domed crossroad markets were popularly called "Taks" (arch) referring to their characteristic vaulted shell structures. The pivotal role of "tak"s in sustaining Bukhara's emin

Toqi Sarrafon

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 Hello everyone 🤩🤩🤩 Welcome to my blog!!! Today is the seventh destination of practice with our groupmates. Our next journey is to Toqi Sarrafon. Are you ready to learn new information about our motherland??? Let's go !!!!        The Toki-Sarrafon is one of Bukhara’s four remained bazaars. This trading dome was used mostly for money exchange during the era of the Silk Road. Indian shop owners frequently exchanged money inside this bazaar. The site is no longer a money exchange center, but it now has lots of great shops where you can pick up interesting souvenirs. Toki Sarrophon ( Pers. - money changers ' tower ) is an architectural monument in Bukhara ( 16th century ), the main trading center for money exchange. At the intersection of 2 streets of Shahristan , st. Shops of sarros were built on the Shahrud stream . Toki Sarrophon is the smallest dome . The building is 8-sided ( size 25x24 m), the inner diameter of the dome is 12 m, the outer dome (bal. 16.55 m) is placed on 4

Turki Jandiy

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Hello everyone 🤩🤩🤩 Our next destination is the complex  of Tirki Jandiy. With our teacher Dilnoza Ilhomovna and two groups , we have visited to the memorial complex on Monday. This unrestored mausoleum lies just south of the city's main tourist zone, on the east side of Nomozgokh Street which leads eventually to the Namazgah Mosque. The exact age of the structure is uncertain, but Badr and Tupev note that unpublished excavation reports from 1971-72 suggest the current edifice was constructed in the mid-16th century, with evidence of three other building periods, two earlier and one later. From an architectural perspective the building's prominent dome set upon a tall drum is indicative of Timurid-era architecture and recalls the Mir-i-Arab Madrassa (likely a contemporary structure) and the far earlier Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum in Samarkand (c. 1403-04). The interior of the mausoleum is unfortunately off-limits to visitors due to its poor structural condition—the main dome is crac

The complete of Boboyi Poradoz.

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Good afternoon ☀️😊  Today is the last destination of this week. We have visited to the complex of Boboyi Poradoz with our group. We went to one of the most famous mausoleums in Bukhara - BOBOYI PORADO'Z MAUSOLEUM. To be honest, I have never visited this place until today and I am really happy for having a chance to visit this Mausoleum. As other days, today was also amazing and exciting, and we gained important and beneficial information about Boboyi Porado'z mausoleum as well as Boboyi Porado'z himself.  Boboyi Poradoz was considered the pit of tailors , shoemakers, mahsidoz and other professions . The mouseloum of Boboyi Poradoz was located outside Sallakhana gate of Bukhara city. Bukhara is one of the shrines. Boboyi Poradoz was born in Bukhara in 842 and died in 945 . He lived 83 years. Sources say " Shawqi Bobo's original name is Poradoz . The reason for this is said to be that he lived with the love of God. That's why they called the sharif family Boboyi

Sayyidi Bandikusho

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 Good morning 🌞❤️ Welcome to my blog. I am very glad to share with you my hands on experience and my feelings. "Said po Bandi Kusho" mosque The "Said po Bandi Kusho" mosque located on Khorezm Street in Bukhara was named after Hazrat Said Abulhasan. Hazrat Said Abulhasan po Band died in 395 Hijri (1004 AD). The genealogy goes back to Hazrat Imam Hasan (ra) through nine rings. It can be seen that Hazrat Saeed Abulhasan was a scholar, a scholar, scholar of the Shari'ah Tariqat - he was a sheikh of truth.  Hazrat Ja'far Khildi was the leader of Saeed Abulhasan's sect, and Jafar Khildi was the murid of Hazrat Junaid Baghdadi. Hazrat Said Abulhasan is the teacher of the famous Abu Bakr Ishaq Gulabadi.  It is said that Hazrat Said Abulhasan was slandered and imprisoned. The shackles on his hands and feet would open by themselves during every prayer. After performing the prayer, their hands and feet will be shackled again. This blessing was revealed to the king

Third day of practice: Piridastgir mosque.

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Hello everyone 🤩🤩🤩  Welcome to my blog 😊😊😊😊😊 Today is our third day of practice with our groupmates and our teacher. Our next destination is the mosque of Piridastgir.  The Piri-dastgir mosque is one of the functioning mosques in Bukhara, where the tombs of Piri-dastgir are also located. The courtyard of the mosque is wide and can accommodate more than a thousand worshipers. The toilet is located to the left of the entrance.The interior of the mosque is also spacious and comfortable. You can pray freely in summer and winter. Of course, the mosque also has a minaret, but it is mostly closed. Piri-dastgir mosque is one of the functioning mosques in the city of Bukhara, where there is also the tomb of Piri-dastgir. The courtyard of the mosque is wide and can accommodate more than a thousand worshipers. Restroom is on the left from the entrance. Our hands-on practice day is over with a lot of exciting memories and information.

Chor Minar

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 Hello everyone 🤩🤩🤩 Today we have visited to Chor Minar Complex in ancient Bukhara. Together with our  teacher  Inoyatova Dilnoza Ilhomovna  and 2 groups our trip was  amazing. East of the Old Town, one block north of M Ambar, is the Chor Minor, a stubby, brick-built structure with four turquoise domes. The Chor Minor (Four Minarets in Tajik) is one of the most charming and quirky buildings in Bukhara, all the more surprising because, built in 1807, it dates from a period of suffocating cultural stagnation. Photogenic little Chor Minar, in a maze of alleys between Pushkin and Hoja Nurabad, bears more relation to Indian styles than to anything Bukharan. The building, resembling an upside-down chair thrust deep into the ground, is merely the darvazakhana gatehouse of a madrassah (90 by 40 metres) built by the rich Turkmen merchant Khalif Niyazkul. If you view the building from the south you are standing in the madrassah courtyard with its former summer mosque to your left and hauz to

CHOR-BAKR

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Hello everyone 🤩🤩🤩 Our hands-on practice has started. The first destination is CHOR-BAKRChor-Bakr is a necropolis in the suburb of Sumiton, about 7 km away from the historical centre of Bukhara. It was originally the burial place of Abu Bakr Said and Abu Bakr Ahmad, descendants of the Prophet Muhammad who died in the 10th century. Depending on the source, it was either two brothers or a father and son. Here is some information about Chor Bakr ,it's architectural structure, and history of the complex. The history of the complex is linked to the Sheikhs (spiritual leader) of Juybari, who trace their lineage back to Abu Bakr Said and Ahmad. They derived their name from the village of Juybari in Bukhara, where they were from.Several Sufi brotherhoods were founded in Central Asia in the 12th and 14th centuries. One of the most influential was the Khodjagon brotherhood, which later became the root for the Naqshbandiya brotherhood.The sheikhs of the Naqshbandiya brotherhood, which appe