7-Day Turk-i Jandi Mausoleum

Today's practice continues from the Turki Jandi mausoleum. 🕌  Turk-i Jandi mausoleum is located in the old city.we gathered at 12 o'clock near the gallery of fine arts and went to the mausoleum of Turk-i Jandi. 

 One of the little-studied places in Bukhara is Turk-i Jandi mazar. The materials available about it are known to a narrow circle of specialists, there are no reports about it in guidebooks, although the mazar has existed for about ten centuries and is almost the same age as the Samanid mausoleum in Bukhara.

Deep in the old town is the tiny and decrepit Turki Jandi mausoleum, favoured for getting one’s prayers answered. Turki Jandi’s tomb is accessed through the mosque in front of the taller, second cupola. A well inside the mosque contains holy water that locals drink from a cooler near the entrance. Have the chatty mullah show you the sections of original 10th-century Arabic script on the mosque’s doors, allegedly inscribed by Turki Jandi himself.

Al-Samani, referring to al-Busayri, further reports that the saint communicated with Abu Bakr “Kalabazi (died presumably in 990-995), a famous Bukhara sheikh, after whose death one of the eastern gates of Bukhara (later Mazar- and Sharif).

  The saint was from one of the tribes (presumably Turkmen) of Dzhand, who founded a new village south of the Shahrud River outside the Bukhara city fortress wall of the 10th century.

  The name of the Saint was quite common in our understanding among Muslims, the name Ahmad; the first part of the form Abu Nasr (“father of Nasr”) is the so-called kunya, i.e. coming from the name of the son. The next two parts are patronymics: ibn al-Fadl ("son of Fadl") and ibn Musa ("son of Musa"); the next part is the epithet al-Muzakkar - "strong", "affectionate", "decorated"; finally, at the end of the nisba - al-Jandi ("from Jand"), a geographical concept, meaning - from the region of Jand.🕌