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Dahbedi Mosque

A small neighbourhood mosque of the 1910s in old Samarkand, with a carved wooden porch, a little minaret and a courtyard pool, close to Bibi-Khanym.

Ensembles1910s

About the place

This is the mosque of the Dahbedi quarter, built in the 1910s among private houses on Bibi-Khanym street. Its rectangular prayer hall has porches on two sides with carved wooden columns and a painted ceiling in traditional patterns.

Beside it stand a small minaret, a white stone post with Arabic inscriptions, and a courtyard with a pool and trees. It is about 150 metres south-west of the Bibi-Khanym mosque and Siab bazaar and 400 metres from the Registan, and is part of the Samarkand World Heritage site.

Why go

  • Painted porch ceiling and carved columns
  • A working neighbourhood mosque
  • A few minutes' walk from Bibi-Khanym

Sources (3)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.openstreetmap.org

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