2024

SAODDAT MAUSOLEUM

Religious buildings

All the mausoleums gathered around that of Saoddat, or "invincible", were built between the 11th and 17th centuries. A central alley, originally 200 m long, leads to the portal of the complex sumptuously decorated with blue ceramics with geometric motifs. On the left, a mosque; on the right, in a crypt, is the tomb of Emir Hussein. There are still about 50 metres of the original driveway. A flight of stairs leads to the roof of the mausoleum on the right, which allows you to contemplate the whole from a certain height.

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2024

MAUSOLEUM OF AL HAKIM AL TERMEZI

Religious buildings

The complex consists of the mausoleum itself, a mosque and a khanaka. The mausoleum, which dates from the 11th century and of which some original sections of the walls still remain, houses the tomb of Al-Hakim Al-Termezi, a learned astronomer and Sufi master, who was born in the 7th or 8th century. He is credited with writing 32 books and an exceptional longevity of 120 years. The tomb was built when he died in the 9th century, the decorations were made in the following centuries.

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2024

AYRAL PAKAMBAR

Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit

The island of the Prophet is unfortunately inaccessible to visitors and even to archaeologists. On this island in the middle of the Amu Darya, a mausoleum was erected in the th and th centuries, where the Prophet Zul Kifl was born, whose name is quoted in the Koran.

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