Today was the 2nd day of our practice We went to the place which is considered as one of the holy places in Islamic World. And it is Baha ad-Din Nakshbandi complex The Baha ad-Din complex is a cult ensemble located in the suburban area of Bukhara. The complex served as the center of the Naqshbandi Dervish order. Its head, Sheikh Bahauddin Naqshband, died in 1389. and he was buried near the village of Kasri Arifon (now in the Kagan district) near Bukhara. Northeast of Bukhara in the village of Kasri Orifon is one of Sufism's more important shrines, the birthplace and the tomb of Khazreti Mohammed Bakhauddin (Baha-al-din, Uzbek: Bahovuddin) Nakhshbandi (1318-1389), the founder of the most influential of many ancient Sufi orders in Central Asia, and Bukhara's unofficial 'patron saint'. Bakhauddin (The Decoration of Religion) was born a few kilometres from the present complex in the town of Kasri Orifon into a family of metalworkers, from where he took the name Nakh...
Today was the 1th day of our practice. And I can say that it was so interesting as we went to the most ancient parts of Bukhara. The destination was Ismail Somoniy Mausoleum Ismail Samani Mausoleum (also the Samanid Mausoleum ), one of the oldest Bukhara historic buildings , is located at the site of an ancient cemetery in Samanid Park near the Registan Square . They believe it was built at the end of the 10th century. Ismail Samani was the founder of the Samanid dynasty, which ruled from 875 to 999. There is evidence proving that he built the mausoleum for Ahmad ibn Assad, his father. The mausoleum became a family sepulcher later where Ismail Samani himself was buried, and so was his grandson. Besides its beauty, the mausoleum is famous for being the oldest Islamic architectural monument in Central Asia. However, its design is not traditionally Islamic; it derives from Zoroastrian burial structures and fire temples . Th...
Zarduzlik is one of the oldest forms of hand embroidery with gold threads. The word "zarduzlik" was formed from the Persian language and literally means "sewing with gold" or "gold sewing". The art of gold embroidery is rooted in the distant past, when Babylon was an important economic and cultural center in southern Mesopotamia. It is believed that it was there that the art of golden threads was born. It also flourished in Byzantium. Thanks to openness and regular cultural exchange with Byzantium, the art of embroidery spread throughout Central Asia. The fame of luxurious items covered with gold threads reached Ancient Russia. There were unique zardu schools on the territory of Uzbekistan. They were opened in Bukhara, Samarkand, Fergana and other cities. But zarduzlik reached its peak in the middle of the 19th century in Bukhara. At that time, there were about 350 gold seamstresses in the emirate. Among the Bukhara masters there is a version that the pat...
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