Religious, Spiritual sights in Bukhara
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Maghoki-Attar
Between the two covered bazaars Taqi-Sarrafon and Taqi-Telpak Furushon, in what was the old herb and spice bazaar, is Central Asia's oldest surviving mosque, the Maghoki-Attar, a lovely mishmash of 9th-century façade and 16th-century reconstruction. This is probably also the town's holiest spot: under it in the 1930s archaeologists found bits of a 5th-century Zoroastrian temple ruined by the Arabs, and an earlier Buddhist temple.
Until the 16th century, Bukhara's Jews are said to have used the mosque in the evenings as a synagogue.
Only the top of the mosque was visible when the digging began; the present plaza surrounding it is the 12th-century level of the town. A secti…
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