Toqi sarafon

Today with course mates, out American teacher NiMa Majidi and our favorite teacher Mohichehra Temirovna, we went to one of the ancient monuments, Toqi sarafon.

Firstly, before exploring the site, as usual, we exchanged ideas and information about the site in order to know more.Toqi Sarrofon (Persian: money changers dome) is an architectural monument and one of the main trade centers for money exchange in Bukhara. This architectural monument was built in 1534-1535 by the order of the Shaybanid ruler Ubaydullah Khan.[1] It is currently included in the national register of immovable property of the material and cultural heritage of Uzbekistan.



It was one of the four largest trade domes built during the reign of the Shaybanid dynasty in the Bukhara Khanate in the 16th century. This trade center was built in the city part of Bukhara, on the Shohrud canal. There were shops for money exchange, a mosque and a Sarrafon bathhouse in this dome. Toqi Sarrofon was famous as the money changers dome, because mostly money changers sat there and exchanged foreign currency and made money.


The word toq is an ancient architectural term, meaning a building and a semi-circular vault in Arabic.[2] In the Bukhara Khanate, a covered market was called a toq. Toqi Sarrofon was also one of such market domes. Sarrof means a money maker. Research shows that people lived in this market area in the 9th century during the Samanid period.There is information that a fire occurred here in the 13th century and that the fire was related to the activities of Genghis Khan.


During the Shaybanid period, Bukhara became a center of private entrepreneurship, lending and money exchange. There were houses, trade domes, caravanserais, mosques, bathhouses and others related to the name of money changers in Bukhara. The inscription above the door of the dome was rebuilt in 1980. The bookcase is decorated with verse 103 of the Nisa surah of the Quran in a complex suls script in blue, and the verse is written in gold.[3] The inscription above the door of the mosque of Toqi Sarrofon reads “This building was completed in 1534-1535 during the reign of Ubaydullah Bahodir Khan”. This inscription was written by Muhammad Darvish Qo’noq, a Bukhara master of calligraphy.[4] During the restoration works in the 1980s, the inscriptions on the walls of the mosque were rebuilt and restored. Today there are handicraft workshops and trade stalls operating in this dome.


Today's experience has been really great and enjoyable. There I have seen so many interesting, historical and amazing accessories that can make you feel past times like carpets, little carpets, earrings necklaces and so on.














It is wonderful to see such things and feel them. One can't feel them without coming and touching them. So I would recommend everyone to visit, see and have fun such places. Now I can say that today I have much information about ancient places in my hometown Bukhara, which I was not even aware of before. So I am gonna thanks to my teacher and institute to give me such experience.


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