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Nuriddin Basir Mausoleum

A shrine built in 1997 in the Hazrat Khizr cemetery of Samarkand over the reburied grave of a blind 13th-century sheikh.

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About the place

Sheikh Nuriddin Basir, called the Fourteenth Qutb, was born blind in Tashkent and became a respected theologian in Samarkand, where he died in 1242. Timur later raised a domed mausoleum over his grave on the Kuksaray hill, but in 1881 it was blown up with Timur's palaces when the Russian fortress was enlarged. The chief qazi of the city moved the saint's remains to the Hazrat Khizr cemetery.

The present mausoleum was built there in 1997 by descendants of that qazi and with donations; a spring beside it is thought to be healing. It is about 230 metres north-east of the Hazrat Khizr mosque, on the southern edge of Afrasiab.

Why go

  • The story of a saint moved after his tomb was destroyed
  • A spring believed to be healing
  • Near the Hazrat Khizr mosque and Afrasiab

Sources (4)

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

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