Marjona Ilkhomova

 Day 8

29.05/2024

Hoja Zayniddin mosque

Hello to everyone.👋I am Marjona and today we were in our eighth practice day.😊Todayʼs plan was going to Hoja Zayniddin mosque.🥰

We got together at 10 o'clocklock.Then the teacher checked our attendance.

Hoja Zayniddin Mosque (1540s-early 1550s)

The Hoja Zayniddin is a mid-16th century mosque located at the junction of two side streets 300 meters southwest of the Po-i-Kalyan square within the shahr-i-darun, or "inner city". Although its interior houses the grandest dome in Bukhara, very little of substance is known about the origin of the building—both its sponsor and its architect have been lost to the mists of time. Even so, the quality of construction, its proximity to the heart of the city, and its large footprint strongly suggest it was a product of the city's ruling elite, or even of the Khan himself.

Design and Description

Like all mosques in central Asia, the mosque is organized around an east-west axis canted to the south, toward Mecca, with the qibla wall to the west. The ideal mosque is symmetrical, but the dense urban fabric of 16th century Bukhara likely necessitated a compromise, such that the angle of the building's south and west facades (facing the street) are out of kilter with the primary axis.