Kok Gumbaz Mosque
The largest Friday cathedral mosque in Shakhrisabz, Kok-Gumbaz, was built in the first half of the 15th century in the Dorut-Tillovat memorial complex opposite the mausoleum of Shamsiddin Kulol. The inscription on its portal says that it was built by Ulugbek on behalf of his father Shahrukh.
The mosque is crowned by a magnificent huge dome covered with blue ceramic tiles. Hence the name of the mosque – Kok-Gumbaz, which means "Blue Dome". Around the cylindrical drum of the dome, the words are laid out in white glazed tiles along a blue stripe with terracotta ornaments: "Dominion belongs to Allah, wealth belongs to Allah."
The interior of the Kok Gumbaz mosque is almost square in plan and has four deep niches oriented to the cardinal directions. The entire surface of the mosque's walls was plastered with white gancha and painted with the finest blue-blue ornaments.
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Tours where you can visit this place:
Kok Gumbaz Mosque
Tashkent — Bukhara — Samarkand — Shakhrisabz
- 720$
- 7d.
Kok Gumbaz Mosque
Bukhara — Samarkand — Shakhrisabz
- 480$
- 5d.
Kok Gumbaz Mosque
Tashkent — Bukhara — Samarkand — Shakhrisabz
- 1150$
- 7d.
Kok Gumbaz Mosque
Tashkent — Bukhara — Samarkand — Khiva — Shakhrisabz — Gizhduvan
- 1200$
- 10d.
Kok Gumbaz Mosque
Tashkent — Bukhara — Samarkand — Khiva — Shakhrisabz — Khorezm — Chimgan — Konigil — Kagan
- 1150$
- 11d.
