Mag'oki Attori Mosque

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Mag'oki Attori Mosque, south facade

The Mag'oki Attori Mosque is a mosque in the Uzbek city ​​of Buxoro .

location

The mosque is located in the middle of the historical center of Buxoro about 400 meters southeast of Poi Kalon , 100 meters southeast of the domed bazaar Toqi Telpak Furushon and 150 meters west of Labi Hovuz .

history

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The Mag'oki Attori Mosque was probably built in the 9th to 10th centuries on the site of a pre-Islamic temple. This makes it one of the oldest preserved mosques in Central Asia and one of the few preserved structures in Buxoro from the time before the Mongol storm . In the 12th century, when the Qarakhanids ruled Buxoro, the mosque was substantially rebuilt and newly clad. It also received a new main facade in the south.

Over the centuries the mosque disappeared more and more under the debris of civilization. In the middle of the 15th century it was renovated again and received a new portal with Pishtak and Iwan in the east at the height of the ground at that time. In the early 1930s the mosque was uncovered and restored again.

description

The building has a rectangular floor plan measuring 12 × 7.5 meters. In the main axis of the building, the flat roof has two octagonal drums with latticed pointed arched windows. Octagonal domes are also placed on top of them.

The floor of the mosque is about 4.5 meters below the surface of the earth. This is why the mosque has its name affix “Mag'oki” (= in the pit). Another "pit" mosque is the Mag'oki Kurpa Mosque, about 150 meters to the northwest .

The building is made of brickwork, only a few ornaments are glazed in color. The south facade with the former main entrance is the most richly decorated. Ornaments are formed primarily by the arrangement of cut and hewn bricks and by terracotta tiles with floral motifs. The Pishtak is slightly pulled forward in front of the facade and flanked by two pylons . The pointed arch of his Ivan rests on two quarter columns set in wall niches, which are decorated with wickerwork. On both sides of the ivan, three rectangular frames with decorative patterns are arranged one above the other.

The Mag'oki Attori Mosque is now used as a carpet museum.

  • entrance

  • Facade detail

  • Facade detail

  • Facade detail

literature

  • Klaus Pander: Mosque Maghak-e Attari . In: Central Asia . 5th updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag , 2004, ISBN 3-7701-3680-2 , chapter Bukhara, the noble , p. 161 f . (DuMont art travel guide).
  • Bradley Mayhew, Greg Bloom, John Noble, Dean Starnes: Maghoki-Attari . In: Central Asia . 5th edition. Lonely Planet , 2010, ISBN 978-1-74179-148-8 , chapter Bukhara , p. 259 .

Web links

Commons : Magok-i-Attari mosque  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pander: Zentralasien , 2004, p. 161
  2. ↑ a b c Pander: Zentralasien , 2004, p. 162
  3. ↑ The Magoki Attori mosque. Doca-Tours.com, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mayhew: Central Asia , 2010, p. 259

Coordinates: 39 ° 46 ′ 23.5 ″  N , 64 ° 25 ′ 6 ″  E