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Ukkosha Mosque
An old mosque near Chorsu in Tashkent, named after a spring once thought to heal, with a domed khanqah, a porch and a gatehouse.
Sheikh Zayniddin Bobo Mausoleum
The domed tomb of a Suhrawardi Sufi master in Tashkent, rebuilt in the late 19th century over an old underground meditation cell.
Mausoleums16th century, rebuilt late 19th centuryAbout 30 minutes to see
About the place
Sheikh Zayniddin was a writer and teacher of the Suhrawardi Sufi order. Tradition says he was a son of the order's founder, who sent him to Tashkent to spread its teaching, and that he died at the age of 95. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Orifon, outside the old Kukcha gate, an area now inside the city.
The mausoleum was built in the sixteenth century and rebuilt at the end of the nineteenth; it measures about 18 by 16 metres and stands nearly 21 metres high. Beneath it is an underground chillakhona, the cell where the sheikh is said to have spent forty-day retreats, and nearby stands a fourteenth-century domed chortoq.
Why go
- Tomb of a Suhrawardi Sufi master
- Underground cell for forty-day retreats
- A fourteenth-century chortoq beside it
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Chorsu Bazaar
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Khoja Ahrar Vali (Juma) Mosque
Tashkent's old Friday mosque beside Chorsu bazaar, founded in 1451 by the Sufi sheikh Khoja Ahrar and rebuilt several times since.