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Sarrafon Mosque

A 16th-century mosque beside the Toki Sarrafon trading dome in Bukhara, long used as a teahouse, with old calligraphy on its portal.

Ensembles16th century

About the place

Also called the Mulla Oriziy mosque, it was built under the Shaybanids in the early 16th century, and an inscription over the gate by the Bukharan calligrapher Muhammad Darvish dates its completion to 1534–1535, under Ubaydullah Khan. It took the name Sarrafon, "money-changers", after the trading dome next to it was built.

The mosque stood on a high platform with a two-sided ayvon; inscriptions in nastaliq script survive on the portal and walls, and one column bears the name of the master Fayzulla. It was last repaired around 1905, served as a teahouse and library until the 1970s and is still used as a teahouse, a few steps from Lyabi Hauz.

Why go

  • A 16th-century mosque that now serves tea
  • Nastaliq calligraphy on the portal
  • Beside Toki Sarrafon, near Lyabi Hauz

Sources (2)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.uz.wikipedia.org

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