Samanids Mausoleum, First destination
Hi, everybody!👋 Welcome to my blog🤗 I will share information on my impressions and experiences about our trip around Bukhara. We started our initial lessons which is part of our qualificational practice and had an amazing travel to historical sights. The first destination had been Samanids Mausoleum. Muborak Azimova gave informative speech and told about its architecture and constructional history. About the monument ☝️ Of all the medieval buildings in Bukhara, the Samanids Mausoleum is of special interest. This world-famous architectural masterpiece was built at the close of the ninth century. The mausoleum was erected as a family crypt immediately after the death of Ismail Samani's father. Later, Ismail himself and his grandson Nasr were also buried in it. It is interesting to note that erecting crypts was against Islamic law at that time, for Islam forbade erecting any post-mortem monuments upon the tombs of Muslim believers. However, the prohibition was broken in the ...