Historic Sights of Tashkent

4.1 Namozgoh Mosque
Built in about 1865, it was considered one of the largest mosques in Tashkent, where the main holiday prayers (Eid Ramazan and Eid al-Adha) were conducted. Since 1971, there functioned the Tashkent Islamic Institute.
4.2 Hazrat Imam Mosque
Construction of the mosque was done in the shortest time (four months) in 2007 on the initiative of the first President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov. The mosque itself is a unique symbol of Tashkent architectural style: at the entrance to the mosque there is a terrace with twenty-carved columns of sandalwood. The mosque also has two large blue domes, the interior of which is decorated with gold leaf as in madrassah Tillakari in Samarkand.Window openings of domes are designed so that the sun’s rays continuously penetrate inside the mosque from sunrise to sunset. At the entrance to the mosque there are erected two minarets of 53 meters in height.
Tomb of Ghujdawani
He was known as the Shaikh of Miracles, One Who Shone Like the Sun, and he was the Master of the high stations of spirituality of his time. He was a Perfect Knower in sufizm and accomplished in asceticism. He is considered the Fountainhead of this Honorable Sufi Order and the Wellspring of the Masters of Central Asia. Abdul Khaliq, one of the Seven Masters of Wisdom in Naqshbandi Golden Chain, was born in Ghujdawan, a town forty kilometers northeast of Bukhara. There he lived and passed his life and was buried. Today, his tomb is a pilgrimage site.
There is also Ulughbek Madrassa nearby, built by the order of Ulugh Bek, the grand son of Amir Temur, in 1433.
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4.3 Friday Mosque
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This is the third largest Friday mosque in Uzbekistan, after two buildings of its kind – Bibi Khanum in Samarkand and Kalyan in Samarkand. This three-domed mosque which was completely rebuilt is located in the center of the Old Town, on the hill near Chorsu Bazaar. Architectural ensemble, surrounded the Friday mosque in the past, is almost completely destroyed during the earthquake, except for heavily restored building Kukeldash madrassah and domes of the mosque of Gulbazar.
After the Arab conquest in the 8th century, an ancient Zoroastrian Tashkent laid in ruins. In 819, the young Amir Yahya ibn Asad, who had just received from the Arab governor of the eastern caliphate the management of all lands present the Tashkent region, stopped his horse at the hill, which is now quite clearly visible between the three urban areas – Chorsu, Khodro, and Eski-Juva, said: “Here we’ll construct our capital, albeit on the hill will rise Madina Al-Shash – the northern outpost of the Maverannahr!” And at the highest point of the selected hill Yahya ibn al-Assad ordered to lay the foundation of the first in Tashkent Friday mosque.