Namozgoh Mosque
The Namozgoh Mosque is a mosque in the Uzbek city of Buxoro .
location
The mosque is located just outside the historic center of Buxoro about 1.6 kilometers south of the Poi Kalon building complex and about 700 m south of the Xoʻjayev house .
history
"Namozgoh" is the Persian name for an outdoor prayer place. Such a prayer place was set up in 1119 under the Qarakhanid Arslan Khan outside the city walls in a garden. As in Qibla required statements were an almost 40 meters long in the west of the site free Qiblamauer with blind arches erected in the midst of an up mihrab alcove was. At the end of the 14th century, the wall was decorated with colorful glazed terracotta . In the 16th century a permanent structure was erected in front of the mihrāb and the qibla wall supported from behind.
description
The area of the open-air mosque is about 37 × 85 meters. In the west there is a structure made up of three dome structures merging into one another, in whose west wall the original qibla wall with the mihrab is integrated. In front of the building is a 15-meter high Pishtak with Iwan . A stone minbar (pulpit) is built on the east side of the northern domed structure , to which a staircase made of brick steps leads up.
literature
- Klaus Pander: Namasgah Mosque . In: Central Asia . 5th updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag , 2004, ISBN 3-7701-3680-2 , chapter Bukhara, the noble , p. 166 f . (DuMont art travel guide).
Web links
- Bernhard Peter: The Namasgah mosque in Bukhara on www.bernhardpeter.de
Coordinates: 39 ° 45 ′ 42.1 ″ N , 64 ° 24 ′ 44.5 ″ E