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Maddokhi Mosque
A small late 19th-century neighbourhood mosque behind Bibi-Khanym in Samarkand, with a carved wooden porch and a courtyard pool.
Khoja Zudmurad Mosque
An old neighbourhood mosque in central Samarkand on early medieval foundations, with wooden porches on three sides and a minaret.
EnsemblesFoundations 9th–10th century; porches 1896
About the place
The present building stands on foundations of the late 9th or early 10th century, and restorers found Seljuk-era bricks in them. The name is understood as "quick fulfilment of wishes", from a belief that prayers here are soon answered.
Its dome was lost long ago and replaced with a flat timber roof. Porches on three sides, each with two doors into the prayer hall, were added in the late 19th century; an inscription on the north porch records that it was paid for in 1896. The mosque stayed open in Soviet times and stands in the historic centre beside the Khoja Zudmurad cemetery.
Why go
- Foundations over a thousand years old
- Carved wooden porches of the 1890s
- A local belief in answered wishes
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The great Friday mosque that Timur built after his campaign in India, with a vast entrance portal and blue domes beside Siab Bazaar.