Summer mosque

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The summer mosque of the Mosque of the Khan in Konya Ark in Khiva
Summer mosque of the Djuma Mosque in the Ark in Bukhara; the mihrabnic can be seen on the left

A summer mosque is a mosque or an area of ​​a mosque that is or was used specifically in the warm summer months .

description

Summer mosques can be found, for example, in Uzbek architecture . Striking peculiarities of these are that they are characterized by at least one side open prayer rooms, mostly under ivans . Examples of summer mosques are found in various historical buildings of the UNESCO World Heritage counting old city of Bukhara and Khiva Ichan Qal'а . There are summer mosques in the Khan's mosque in the Konya Ark citadel , in the Pahlawan Mahmud memorial and in the Ak mosque in Khiva or in the Dschuma mosque in the Ark citadel in Bukhara . As a counterpart, facilities with a summer mosque often also have closed rooms, which are used in cold seasons and are then called winter mosques.

literature

  • Alexey Arapov: The Historical Monuments of Uzbekistan . Tashkent Samarkand Bukhara Chiva Shahrisabz. SMI-ASIA, Tashkent 2016, ISBN 978-9943-17-075-9 , Chiva, p. 88, 99, 101 .