Bolo Hovuz Mosque

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Bolo Hovuz Mosque

The Bolo Hovuz Mosque is a mosque in the Uzbek city ​​of Buxoro .

location

The mosque is located in the northwest of the historical center of Buxoro on the west side of the Registan opposite the Ark Citadel . There is a pool of water in front of the mosque , in which its vestibule is reflected, and a minaret to its side .

history

The water basin in front of the mosque is older than the mosque itself. It was one of the numerous artificially created ponds ( Uzbek hovuz ) that used to be used to supply water to the population and of which only a few have survived . The pool was named Bolo Hovuz (children's pond).

In 1712 the mosque was built on the pond. Before the revolution, it served as Bukhara’s main Friday mosque. The Emir of Bukhara also often came to the mosque. The building is now used as a mosque again.

In 1917 the architect Shirin Muradov built a small minaret next to the mosque.

description

The Bolo Hovuz Mosque consists of a domed rectangular building oriented in an east-west direction with a floor area of ​​27 × 20 m and a 42 m wide porch in the east with a 10 m deep open vestibule . Two rows of 12.50 meter high, thin wooden columns with carved stalactite capitals support the brightly painted and richly decorated coffered ceiling of the vestibule. The dome building served as a winter mosque , the Ivan as a summer mosque .

The building has cross to the porch toward two-storey pointed arches - arcades with three arches on each side of the main entrance. Behind each arcade there is access to a cell in the transverse building.

The water basin is square with bevelled corners and a side length of about 20 meters. The walled edge of the pool leads in steps to the surface of the water. On the left side of the mosque, i.e. the south side of the ensemble, is the minaret between the mosque and the basin.

  • Vestibule (iwan)

  • Arcades

  • Ivan's ceiling

  • Mihrab

  • minaret

literature

  • Klaus Pander: Mosque Bala House . In: Central Asia . 5th updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag , 2004, ISBN 3-7701-3680-2 , chapter Bukhara, the noble , p. 149 f . (DuMont art travel guide).
  • Bradley Mayhew, Greg Bloom, John Noble, Dean Starnes: Ark and around . In: Central Asia . 5th edition. Lonely Planet , 2010, ISBN 978-1-74179-148-8 , chapter Bukhara , p. 261 f .

Web links

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Coordinates: 39 ° 46 ′ 40 "  N , 64 ° 24 ′ 26.7"  E