Ark Fortress

 So today we went to Amir Olimxon's palace ,so this plac  in 1731 Khoja Sayyid Amir  popularly nicknamed Kalon (“High”), was a Hanafi scholar, Sufi murshid and spiritual mentor of Bahauddin Naqshbandi. Sayid Amir  was born in 1281 in the village of Sukhor (now the village of Yangikhet) in the Kagan region, in the village of hereditary potters. According to legend, he was tall and broad in shoulders. Penetrating eyes peered out from under furrowed brows. His skin was tan. His face was framed by a gray beard. He was very humble and gentle in manner. He was far from objection and stubbornness. Thanks to wrestling in his youth, he had a large physique, and was physically developed. As for spirituality, there was no person who would doubt his righteousness, because he behaved like an enlightened one who absorbed all the best that Sharia, Tariqa and Marifat contain.

 This mausoleum is located in the village of Sukhar (25 km north of Bukhara). He was recorded at the grave site of Khojagan Amir Kulol (1281-1370), an influential priest of the Sufi school, a famous scholar of Sufism (not to be confused with his contemporary Shaykh Shamsiddin Kulol, who was buried in Shakhrisabz), according to old traditions. He was the religious patron of Amir Temur. According to one of the stories, as well as the apocryphal work "Malfuzat-i/Tuzukat-i Temuri", Amir Kulol blessed Amir Temur and prophesied a great future for him. Such a vision of a blessed person and the honor of his student Bahauddin Naqshbandi is the honor of Amir Kulol. served in the burial ground. Nevertheless, several significant buildings were not built on top of his grave. During the Soviet era, these places became abandoned. At the beginning of the 19th century, the mosque was completely

 Today was our eighth day of practice.The Memorial Complex of Khoja Bakhouddin Naqshbandi is one of the most important Muslim shrines. Every self-respecting Muslim knows and reveres this name. The great theologian of the XIV century, founder of the Sufi Order "Naqshbandia" was buried 12 km from Bukhara in his native village of Kasri Orifon. Some time ago there was the pagan temple of the site of current tomb of Nagshbandi. His biography is almost unknown because he prohibited his disciples to chronicle his life and activity. He was thought to be Seyid – a direct descendant of Prophet Mohammed. He was born in a craftsman’s family. His father was a weaver and chaser (Naqshband). But it was his grandfather who played an important role in his life. He was well familiar with Sufis and paid much attention to the religious sciences. Bahouddin Naqshbandi was taught by famous counselors of that time. 

 Ismat Bukhari (pseudonym; real name Ismatullah) (1365, Bukhara - 1436) is a poet. Studied in Bukhara. He lived in Samarkand during the reign of Khalil Sultan and Mirza Ulugbek (1404-09; 1409-49). In the 30s of the 15th century, he left the palace and settled in Bukhara. Navoi writes in "Majolis unnafois" that "Khuja Ismatullo Movarunnahr is one of the nobles. He has perfected the knowledge of Zahir. Due to his excellent poetry, his poetry became famous." I. B. is one of the poets who wrote in Turkish, Persian and Arabic languages and started the tradition of zullisonayn in the literary environment of Bukhara.  His 8,000-verse divan and 1,035-verse work written in Turkish called "Ibrahim Adham" have reached us. I. B. mostly created works in the ghazal, qasida, masnavi, and rubai genres of poetry. Hafiz wrote ghazals following Sherazi. The basis of his work is ghazals, which discuss life, man, love, youth, work and purity. In his satirical poems, he describ

 Good afternoon, today we went to the Jo’ybor madrasah. and travelled around the madrasah and took a lot of datas. The Madrasa is located in the historic center of Buxoro about 20 meters east of the dome bazaar Toqi Zargaron. Abdulaziz Khan Madrasa was built in 1652 under the Janjan Khan Abd al-Aziz, who ruled from 1647

 The Ark of Bukhara is a massive fortress located in the city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, that was initially built and occupied around the 5th century AD. In addition to being a military structure, the Ark encompassed what was essentially a town that, during much of the fortress's history, was inhabited by the various royal courts that held sway over the region surrounding Bukhara. The Ark was used as a fortress until it fell to Russia in 1920. Currently, the Ark is a tourist attraction and houses museums covering its history.[1] The museums and other restored areas include an archaeological museum, the throne room, the reception and coronation court, a local history museum, and the court mosque. The Ark is a large earthen fortification located in the northwestern part of contemporary Bukhara. In layout, it resembles a modified rectangle, a little elongated from the west to the east. The perimeter of the external walls is 789.6 m (2,591 ft), the area enclosed being 3.96 ha (9.8 acres).

 Bukhara State Architectural Art Museum-Preserve was founded in 1922. From 1945 on, Bukhara museum is located in Ark fortress. There are over 100,000 items of cultural, material and intellectual legacy of Uzbek people in the Bukhara museum funds. The exhibits include gold embroidery, copper chased items, ganch carving, samples of architectural decor, coins, household items, graphic works, painting, sculpture, old maps, books and other documents of historical value In 1985 Bukhara museum has got status of a state culture preserve. Nowadays it has 6 branches with 18 permanent exhibitions located in various memorials of Bukharian architecture. Ark citadel hosts the head office of the Bukhara museum and its expositions of history, numismatics, epigraphy, nature and scripts of Bukhara. - Ornamental and applied arts of the Central Asian people as well as household items of Bukhara emirs may be seen in the museum branch located in the summer camp of Bukhara emirs – Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa Palace.

 Madrasah Gaukushan (Gaukushon) (Uzb. Govkushon madrasasi) is a madrasah building of the Khoja-Gaukushan architectural ensemble in the historical center of Bukhara (Uzbekistan), erected in 1562-1565 under the Uzbek ruler Abdullah Khan II at the expense of a representative of the clergy of the Juybar sheikh - Khoja Sa'ad, known by the nickname “Khoja Kalon”, which is reflected in the name of the complex. Located to the west of the dome of the Toki-Sarrafon money changer behind the buildings of Russian architecture of the late 19th - early 20th centuries The layout of the madrasah is traditional, it consists of halls that were former classrooms and a mosque, a courtyard, surrounded in a circle by one-story hudjras. The two-bay madrasah received a trapezoidal plan, which was due to the shape of the area being built [1]. While the entire building was one-story, to make it more monumental, the main façade was made two-story. This technique was then used in later madrassas of Bukhara, Kh