Juma Mosque
Another name is Juma Mosque that means Friday Mosque. The building represents an architectural monument of the XIV-XV centuries. This is the third largest mosque in
The first building in Tashkent of Djuma mosque (the main Friday mosque) was built in 1451 on the funds of Sheikh Ubaidulla Khodja Akhror (1404-1490). Sheikh was born in the village Bogustan near the present Charvak lake. He was a great Sufi master, the Muslim leader and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. One of the Sufi saints Sheikh al-Affendi Tahur (Sheikhantaur) was his relative on the maternal line. Ubaidullah Akhror, being quite young, became the head of the Order of Sufis, founded Bagautdin Naqshbandi followers.
He has significantly improved the philosophical and legal theory of the Order, and by mid XV. century became the leader of the Muslim clergy of the empire, inherited from Tamerlane. Ubaidulla Khodja Akhror had to leave Tashkent, because at that time the center of the clergy was Samarkand. Preparing for the move, he decided to build a present to the people of Tashkent mosque and madrassa.
In 1868 the mosque was destroyed by strong earthquake, but in 1888 was restored in the means of Russian Tsar Alexander III. In a related development, the mosque came to be called the Royal Mosque. In 1997, the old mosque was demolished, and in its place built a new - Jamia Mosque. From the old mosque were only fragments of ancient space planning and design.
He has significantly improved the philosophical and legal theory of the Order, and by mid XV. century became the leader of the Muslim clergy of the empire, inherited from Tamerlane. Ubaidulla Khodja Akhror had to leave Tashkent, because at that time the center of the clergy was Samarkand. Preparing for the move, he decided to build a present to the people of Tashkent mosque and madrassa.
In 1868 the mosque was destroyed by strong earthquake, but in 1888 was restored in the means of Russian Tsar Alexander III. In a related development, the mosque came to be called the Royal Mosque. In 1997, the old mosque was demolished, and in its place built a new - Jamia Mosque. From the old mosque were only fragments of ancient space planning and design.
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