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Bahouddin Naqshband Complex
The burial place of Bahouddin Naqshband, founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi order, east of Bukhara; one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Uzbekistan.
Sayyid Amir Kulol Complex
Memorial complex in Sukhor village near Bukhara around the grave of Sayyid Amir Kulol (1281–1370), the sixth master of the Khwajagan Sufi line.
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About the place
Sayyid Amir Kulol lived from 1281 to 1370 and is counted as the sixth master in the chain of the Khwajagan, the Sufi tradition that later became the Naqshbandi order. He was the spiritual teacher of Bahauddin Naqshband. His grave lies in Sukhor village in Kogon district, a short drive from Bukhara.
The complex around the grave was rebuilt in 1995 and again in 2007. It now brings together a mausoleum, a mosque, a minaret, a pool and a garden. It is one of the stops on the traditional circuit of the seven Sufi masters of Bukhara, and half an hour is enough for a quiet visit.
Why go
- Grave of Bahauddin Naqshband's teacher
- Mosque, minaret, pool and garden
- Stop on the seven-saints circuit
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Amir Muzaffar Khan Mosque
A nineteenth-century mosque with a pillared porch inside the Bahouddin Naqshband complex outside Bukhara, built in the time of Amir Muzaffar.
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Dakhmai Shohon (Shaybanid Burial Platform), Bahouddin Naqshband Complex
A marble-clad burial platform of the Shaybanid khans inside the Bahouddin Naqshband shrine near Bukhara, covered in fine carving and calligraphy.
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St Nicholas Church, Kagan
A small domed brick Orthodox church of 1968 in the railway town of Kagan near Bukhara, with an iconostasis brought from Moscow.