NADIR DIVAN-BEGI Madrasah🕌

 DAY 11

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WE began third week of our practice it is passing very soon 🥹😿 Today is the First day in third week.It started at 9 oʼclock. Our Todayʼs Destination was NADIR DIVAN-BEGI MADRASAH 🕌

Now I tried to Share some information that I know about that complex 👇🧐

Nadir Divan-begi Madrasah is a part of the architectural complex located round well-known Lyabi-Hauz in Bukhara. The madrasah building, as well as khanaka nearby, were named after vizier Nadir by whose order they were constructed. Vizier Nadir served at a court yard of one the strongest and powerful representatives of Ashtarkhanid dynasty Imamkuli-khan, who ruled in Bukhara in 1611-1642. The board of Imamkuli-khan was one of the most stable and relatively peaceful for the whole history of Ashtarkhanids in Bukhara. It was time when governors paid attention not only to constant wars, but also to town-planning.

Initially, Nadir Divan-begi ordered to build khanaka (a place for Sufis to reflect and rest), later caravansari was added. However, at the opening ceremony, Imamkuli-khan said that caravansari was built in the glory of the Allah, therefore the vizier had to reconstruct it into the madrasah. The Nadir Divan-begi madrasah is decorated in the style typical for all Muslim monuments of Central Asia. At the same time, the images of birds, animals and a human being - sun were also used in decoration, and it was uncharacteristic for Islamic monuments. The Nadir Divan-begi Madrasah was built on the model of Sherdor in Samarkand but famous lions at the portal were replaced with mythical birds of happiness.
Having transformed the caravansari into madrasah, the vizier ordered to attach a loggia, a portal and angular towers to its main façade, and to add the second floor for living rooms – hudjrs. As for khanaka, it had a form of a multichamber building with the central dome hall. Hudjrs were not on the second but on the first floor, in lateral walls and building corners. The main entrance had extended form, untypical for Central Asia. Nadir Divan-begi ordered to construct pool near to khanaka and madrasah. Stone steps lead to it.. Subsequently this artificial reservoir was named Lyabi Hauz and became one of the most known sights of Bukhara.

Construction began with the khanaka, followed by a caravanserai which was soon converted into a madrasah by order of Imamkuli Khan. The transformation necessitated the building of a portal, covered corridors at the building’s four corners and the addition of second-floor cells for students. By order of Nadir Divan-Begi, a pool was dug in the center of the square between Divan-Begi Madrasah and Kukeldash Madrasah, now known as Bukhara’s Lyabi-Hauz.

Nadir Divan-Begi Madrassah is famous for the distinctive mosaics around its portal, lurid depictions of mythical Semurg birds clasping white deer in their claws. While the imagery of birds is hardly unusual in regional art of that period, they were typically portrayed in miniature paintings, embroideries and carpet patterns rather than on religious buildings. The Semurg bird was considered a symbol of happiness, while deer represented torment, the fleeting beauty of this world and the realization that man’s destruction of nature was bound to cause pain. The original mosaic was not preserved, and the current montage is a 20th-century restoration.

Nadir Divan-Begi Khanaka is located to the west of Lyabi-Hauz and faces the east. Like many monuments in Bukhara, the khanaka is associated with the Sufi order. Sufi dervishes would sometimes live for long periods near the grave of their order’s founder, while others went on pilgrimage, knowing they could find shelter and hospitality wherever they roamed. In many cities, the khanaka served as the crowded hub of their activities. Hungarian traveler and Asian historian Arminius Vamberi visited Bukhara in 1863 under the pseudonym of Dervish Haji Mahmud-Rishad, and in his memoirs he describes the dervishes, public orators, actors and numerous other participants of Nadir Divan-Begi Khanaka’s incessant action.

The Nadir Divan-Begi Madrasah and khanaka join with Lyabi Hauz and Kukeldash Madrasah inside the walls of Bukhara’s Old Town to form the Lyabi Hauz Ensemble, one of the key attractions in Bukhara today.

Nadir Divan-Begi Madrasah of Bukhara, along with the corresponding khanaka, were important spiritual centers of the city in historical times, and their active influence on the life and worldview of Bukhara’s inhabitants cannot be understated.

So our Todayʼs adventure was over it passed very Well I learned a lot of interesting facts about historical places. It finished at 10 oʼclock.

Good bye🤗🫡