Second   day  of  our  practice 🗒📌📝

Today is the second day of our practice and we visited the  

Kalyan Minaret

The first part of the day was a wonderful experience.

My coursemates and I were sitting on a bench. Suddenly a tourist older than us came walking us badly. We got up and gave him a seat. He was happy and started talking to us.

He was from Germany. He is 86 years old and has one daughter and one son. The daughters are 56 years old and the sons are 58 years old. I'm envious of this tourist. He has traveled to many places, including Madrid, Lisbon, Sydney, USA, and even the moon.

So I liked the German tourist very much because he was a very sincere, kind person. They had an interesting conversation with us. The conversation was so interesting that I even wanted to listen for hours but due to time constraints we ended our conversation and said goodbye to the German tourist. But this conversation was very memorable for me

Today, my coursemates  Sabinabonu and Gulnoza shared a lot of interesting and useful information about Minaret Kalon. Now I want to share this information with you.

    

Kalyan Minaret

The main silhouette of Bukhara

Kalyan Minaret is one of the tallest buildings in Bukhara, its height is 46.5 m, and a fundamental part of all its leaves to a depth of 10 m with a diameter at the base of 9 m. Powerful tapered thinning ends up with massive pillar lantern cylindrical rotunda on stalactite crown. You can visit this place whitin Uzbekistan tours.

 Kalyan Minaret is located in eastern part of Bukhara and the history of its construction referred to the XI century. This monument originally served for the purpose of call for Muslim prayers. However later, this high minaret became an observation post, from which followed the appearance of the enemy and also served as a kind of beacon for trade caravans.

Legends about Kalyan minaret

There is a great deal of legends about Kalyan Minaret. One old story narrates about a shakh and his wife. The shakh was a merciless man. Once he decided to push his wife off the minaret. But the wife was clever, and she asked her husband to fulfill her wish. He agreed. On that terrible day of wife’s execution, she put on all her dresses and skirts.

Being absolutely calm, the wise woman went up the stairs to the tower. When she jumped it seemed a miracle. The woman survived because her clothes blew up like a parachute, which carefully pulled her down the earth.

One more legend is about Genghis Khan. When the commander captured Bukhara, he entered the square and looked up the minaret The helmet fell from his head. Genghis Khan had to bend to pick it up. Then the powerful fighter uttered the following phrase “I had never bow, but this structure is so majestic and worth a bow”.

Discover this unique monument of the Bukhara as a symbol of past centuries.

This tower offers a very beautiful view especially at night😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩

Poyi -Kalon Ensemble

On  the way to the main shopping street, the intersection of the old town - "shakhristan" formed the central architectural ensemble of Bukhara, which forms its unique silhouette - a complex Poi Kalon, which means "Base of the Great", refers to the base of the great minaret Kalon. It is an ancient historical site. To the south of the Ark fortress, traditionally, from the VIII century, over and over again built, crumbled, rebuilt after fires and wars, moving from place to place, building the main mosque of the city. The last such building prior to the current Kalon Mosque, this place was built in 1121 by Karakhanids ruler Arslan Khan.

In the XII century, Arslan Khan planned a grandiose reconstruction of the city: it parses the City Palace, who was on the street Boo-Lyays, recreates the citadel, which has turned to this time in the ruins of the city and carries a mosque. The new mosque is built around one hundred fifty meters to the south-east of the citadel, and when it is being built minaret. The minaret was, according to Narshahi "nicely done", but was built precariously. Immediately upon completion of construction of the mosque minaret falls, and two-thirds of its ruins. In 1121, Arslan Khan concludes a new mosque, and in 1127 - and the minaret, has come down to our days. The mosque was burned during the siege of Bukhara hordes of Genghis Khan. From the ensemble of the XII century now preserved majestic minaret, built in front of the main facade of the not preserved mosque of Arslan Khan.

Kalon Minaret

The dominant of the ensemble - Minaret Kalon (or Minorai Kalon) - prevailing over the city a giant tower. The value of this minaret went far beyond the practical purpose: to Proclamation call to prayer was enough to climb the roof of the mosque pas, as it did in the first centuries after the establishment of Islam. Later it was used for the tower of Roman temples, the bell tower of the Christian churches, Zoroastrian "tower of fire" and other vertical structures, various types are developed in different nations of the world long before Islam. The word "minaret" is derived from the Arabic "minor" that "place where something is lit."

According to the caption under the eaves of turquoise majolica lamp of Kalon minaret found that it was completed in 1127 at half the height of the barrel reads the name of Arslan Khan. It is found and the name of the master - Bako, the burial of local residents indicate that among the houses of the neighboring district. Bako elevated characteristic for Maurannahr (Central Asia) in the form of a minaret round-the-barrel brick tower, narrowing upwards. The diameter of the bottom - 9 m at the top - 6 m, height - 45.6 m wide column winds up a brick spiral staircase leading to the area of sixteen-arched rotunda - light, based on projecting the ranks of masonry, furnished in a magnificent stalactite cornice - Sharaf. Minaret for nearly 900 years has never been repaired!

Kalon Mosque

The building of the Kalon mosque (Masjid-i Kalon) was completed in 1514 It is equal to the scale of the building of the Bibi Khanum mosque in Samarkand. Under the arches of her going up to 12,000 people. When the same type of building - is quite different works of architectural art. The rectangular courtyard is surrounded by galleries, consisting of 288 domes. The reason they are 208 columns. The longitudinal axis of the court concludes "Maksura" - portal-domed building with a volume of cross-hall, above which rises a massive blue mosaic dome on a drum. The building has many interesting architectural finds. For example, a round hole in one of the domes. Below, you can see through it Kalon minaret base. A retreating step by step, you can count all the belts patterned masonry minaret and be rested in his eyes rotunda.

Miri Arab madrassah

Construction of the madrasa Mir-i Arab attributed by Sheikh Abdullah Yamani (ie, “from Yemen"), the spiritual mentor first Sheibanids, better known by the name Mir-Arab. Sheikh Abdullah had a great influence on Ubaydullah Khan (Sultan of Bukhara 1512-1533, Khan of Maurannahr 1533-1539), which left a significant mark in the history of Bukhara. Contemporaries drew his stern warrior. He was six times led his troops to battle in Khorasan (northeastern Iran). Was brought up in the spirit of the ruler of Sufi philosophy and the very name of 'Ubaydullah", had given him his father in honor of the famous sheikh of the XV century Ubaidulla Akhror-Khoja, the head of the famous Naqshbandi Sufi order.

By the thirties of the XVI century gone are the days when the rulers erected for themselves and their relatives ceremonial tomb. The value of religion was so great that even the emperor was satisfied with the burial at the feet of his Shaykh in a room of his madrassa. Therefore, in the madrassas, the center “gurkhana” (tomb) stands a wooden tombstone Ubaidulla Khan. In his head - the tomb of Mir-Arab. Next to him was buried Muhammad Kasim - "Mudarris" (Senior Lecturer).

At the time, Mir-Arab madrassah was the only Muslim spiritual institution in the former USSR. Among its famous alumni, called the Mufti of Azerbaijan Pasha-Zadeh, a former mufti of Kazakhstan Ratbek Nysanbayuly, the head of the Russian Muslims Ravil Gaynuddin and the late Chechen President Akhmad-hadji Kadyrov, the former mufti to the events. Miri-Arab is the second largest in size (after Kukeldash) madrassa in Bukhara. It has 114 cells in the number of verses in the Koran.

Birthday party😁😍🤩🥰🥳🥳🥳🎉🎊💜🤗📅

Today is the birthday of our very smart and beautiful coursemate Sabinabonu. We wish her  a long life, happiness and good luck. It was a very happy and memorable day.

So, the second day of our practice was very interesting and full of surprises. From today, I have received a lot of information that I need.

And the second day of our practice is over. 😁😉😊🤗🥰🤩📌🗒📝📅