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State Museum of the History of Culture of Uzbekistan, Samarkand
Samarkand's main history museum, founded in 1896, with ceramics, coins, jewellery, Zoroastrian ossuaries and paintings by artists of the region.
Murad Avliya Mausoleum
A 19th-century shrine in west Samarkand over the grave of a scholar who died in 1511, one of the city's few Shia shrines, visited by Sunnis too.
Mausoleums19th century
About the place
The shrine holds the grave of Khoja Said Musa ibn Said Murtaza, a jurist and theologian and a pupil of Khoja Ahrar, who died in 1511. People call him Murad Avliya, from the word for "wish", because he is believed to help wishes come true; many pilgrims come on Wednesdays, often to pray for health or children.
Samarkand's Iranian community built the present mausoleum in the 19th century. It was closed in Soviet times, then reopened and restored after 1991. It stands in a large courtyard with an old cemetery and a small mosque, on Jarariq Street near Mirzo Ulugbek Avenue, about 150 metres from the State Museum of the History of Culture of Uzbekistan.
Why go
- A rare Shia shrine in Samarkand
- Busy with pilgrims on Wednesdays
- Close to the State Museum of the History of Culture
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