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Abu Hafs Kabir Bukhari Memorial Complex
A rebuilt shrine in Bukhara to the 8th–9th century jurist Abu Hafs Kabir, with a mausoleum, an old mosque, a minaret and a pool.
Hazrati Imam Gate, Bukhara
A rebuilt gate in the northern city wall of Bukhara, named after the nearby shrine of the scholar Abu Hafs Kabir.
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About the place
This gate in the northern wall of Bukhara took its name from the shrine of Abu Hafs Kabir (767–832), a revered scholar buried on the hills just outside it; people left the city this way to visit him. The gate was rebuilt in the 16th century under the Shaybanids.
Soviet authorities pulled it down with the adjoining wall in 1939 as an obstacle to traffic, and it was recreated on the same spot around 2009–2012 as one of four rebuilt gates out of the eleven Bukhara once had. It stands on Abu Hafs Kabir Street, north of the Ark.
Why go
- One of four rebuilt gates of old Bukhara
- Linked to the shrine of Abu Hafs Kabir
- North of the Ark, off the usual route
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