📝Seventh day of our practice💥

May 31, 2022

🌄Practice time📚

📑31.05.22💥

Hello dears 😇

😎one more time🙃

Today we also visited🚶to

Samanid mausoleum

Before sharing feelings and comments about our practice day

It would be great 😉 to

🕌introduce this🕌

marvelous building

🧐Its history🧭

The 🤔 Samanid Mausoleum is a mausoleum located in the 🕌 northwestern part of Bukhara, 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan, just outside its historic center. It was built in the 10th century CE as the resting place of the powerful and influential Islamic Samanid dynasty that ruled the Samanid Empire from approximately 900 to 1000. It contained three burials, one of whom is known to have been that of Nasr II.

Perfectly symmetrical, compact in its size, yet monumental in its structure, the mausoleum not only combined multi-cultural building and decorative traditions, such as Sogdian, Sassanian, Persian and even classical and Byzantine architecture, but incorporated features customary for Islamic architecture – a circular dome and mini domes, pointed arches, elaborate portals, columns and intricate geometric designs in the brickwork. At each corner, the mausoleum's builders employed squinches, an architectural solution to the problem of supporting the circular-plan dome on a square. The building was buried in silt some centuries after its construction and was revealed during the 20th century by archaeological excavation conducted under the USSR.