Bukhara, Magokh-i-Attar Mosque 1178-1179 - History of Islamic Architecture (sitios de interés)

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Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Magokh-i-Attar Mosque
8th cent and 1178-1179
Qarakhanid

The place of the Magokh-i-Attar mosque has functioned as a sacred or religious site over millennia. The present mosque was built in the early 8th century and rebuilt numerous times until the early twentieth century. The building is notable as the oldest extant mosque in Central Asia, and as one of the few pre-Mongol monuments in the region.
The mosque's origins, like many others in Bukhara, are mysterious and legend-laden. The site is now understood to have once formed the core of Bukhara's city center (Shahristan) in the early Sogdian era. The site was occupied in the 5th century by a Zoroastrian temple, which was replaced by a Buddhist temple. An important temple dedicated to Moh, the moon deity, and a market surrounding it stood there until a conflagration in 937. Nothing has remained from these earlier buildings. The southern portal, which is the oldest component of the present structure, can be traced to the Qarakhanid dynasty's extensive rebuilding in the twelfth century.

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