İSMAIL SAMANI Mausoleum
Day 6
Hazratova Oysaraxon 🌸
Hiiiii 👋 everybody How are you,WE are Meeting again🤗
Today is the sixth day of our practice.we began the First Day in the Second week with saying bismillah ✨
It was very Sunny and hot day.it was affecting to people WHO were fasting.But WE tried to tolerante.Our practice started at 9 oʼclock.Our First Destination in the second week was ISMAIL SAMANI Mausoleum. WE found it without difficulties,because it is Kocatepe near Chashmah-Ayyub Mausoleum.
In this blog I am going to show some information about that complex 👇👇👇
Ismail Samani Mausoleum (also the Samanid Mausoleum), one of the oldest Bukhara historic buildings, is located at the site of an ancient cemetery in Samanid Park near the Registan Square. They believe it was built at the end of the 10th century. Ismail Samani was the founder of the Samanid dynasty, which ruled from 875 to 999. There is evidence proving that he built the mausoleum for Ahmad ibn Assad, his father. The mausoleum became a family sepulcher later where Ismail Samani himself was buried, and so was his grandson.
Besides its beauty, the mausoleum is famous for being the oldest Islamic architectural monument in Central Asia. However, its design is not traditionally Islamic; it derives from Zoroastrian burial structures and fire temples.
The mausoleum is built of only fired bricks and has the form of a cube. Each of the four corners of it has a pillar with almost no decoration. The pillars hold arcades of ten arches on each side. At the corners of the roof there are small domes; they are shifted a little towards the center in relation to the pillars. The center of the roof is crowned with a large dome.
The walls of the mausoleum feature decorative brickwork of alternating horizontal and vertical elements. Thanks to these intricate patterns, the mausoleum looks different at different times of day. The chains of brick rings along the cornice resemble Sassanian pearls of stucco decoration depicting drilled beads, which many Central Asian palaces featured in pre-Islamic period. The brickwork in some parts of the mausoleum has interlacement patterns, which adds to the beauty of the structure and highlights the amazing artistry of its builders.
The mausoleum marks a new era in the development of Central Asian architecture after the Arabian conquest. The architects continued to follow the ancient tradition of brick construction, but to a much higher standard than before.
From a technological standpoint, the tomb is the first in Central Asia to introduce the use of squinches to mediate the transition from a round dome to a square base, pioneering a design feature that was widely used in subsequent centuries. It also foreshadows the use of muqarnas, or stalactite-vaulting, that became extremely popular in Islamic architecture as an alternative to the squinch and a decorative feature in its own right.
The tomb survives only by accident, as it lay undisturbed in mud for many centuries until its rediscovery in the 1930s by the Soviet-era archeologist V. A. Shishkin. Grabar notes that several clues were found that hinted to its early origins apart from its archaic appearance. On the doorway of the east entrance a fragment of Kufic text on a wooden plaque provided the name Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn Ismail, who died in 943. He also notes that in a Bukharan library a receipt was discovered dating from 1568-69 (itself a copy o kif a 10th century receipt) that indicated Ismail had provided land for the tomb of his father Ahmad (d. 864/865), also noting that several family members were buried there (indeed, three bodies were found buried in the tomb itself). Although the tomb is nowadays described as Ismail Samani's burial site, it may have served more properly as one of several dynastic tombs, of which no others survive.
There WE prayed For grave🤲🤲🤲🥹
WE spent about one hour to Walk anda Learn that complex.After learning it we asked from our teacher to let us to go to Park with my groupmates.Fortunately Our teacher allowed us to go😚😚
The tomb survives only by accident, as it lay undisturbed in mud for many centuries until its rediscovery in the 1930s by the Soviet-era archeologist V. A. Shishkin. Grabar notes that several clues were found that hinted to its early origins apart from its archaic appearance. On the doorway of the east entrance a fragment of Kufic text on a wooden plaque provided the name Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn Ismail, who died in 943. He also notes that in a Bukharan library a receipt was discovered dating from 1568-69 (itself a copy o kif a 10th century receipt) that indicated Ismail had provided land for the tomb of his father Ahmad (d. 864/865), also noting that several family members were buried there (indeed, three bodies were found buried in the tomb itself). Although the tomb is nowadays described as Ismail Samani's burial site, it may have served more properly as one of several dynastic tombs, of which no others survive.
WE enjoyed with Todayʼs adventure.It was rich in happiness and informative things.We didnʼt Atay more in the Park WE Came Back soon.We are waiting next practice days.
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