Second day of our practice at ISMAIL SAMAID MAUSLEUM

 GOOD AFTERNOON TO MY DEAR FOLLOWERS. 🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋

AREN'T TOU BORED OF THE RAINY WEATHER?💧💧💧💦  I HOPE ALL OF YOU IN A GOOD MOOD 

TODAY WE CONTINUE OUR LESSON AT  ISMAIL SAMAID MAUSLEUM 

TO TELL THE TRUTH, FOR ME TODAY WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE PRACTICAL DAY

BECAUSE I SPEND MY TIME WITH MY BESTIES UNDER THE RAIN.💔💕💕

The Samanid mausoleum is located in the historical urban nucleus of the city of Bukhara, in a park laid out on the site of an ancient cemetery. The mesmerizing tomb of Ismael Samani is an architectural bolt from the blue. The oldest, best preserved and most breathtakingly original building in Bukhara, it is without doubt oneof the architectural highlights of any visit to Uzbekistan. This mausoleum in Samani Park, completed in 905, is the town’s oldest Muslim monument and probably its sturdiest architecturally.
According to the legend, the founder of Samanids dynasty, Ismail Samanid, built this mausoleum for the father. Later this building became the family burial-vault of all Samanids. Presumably, Ismail himself, who died in 907, and his grandson Nasr II ibn Ahmad, who died in 943 and whose name was found on the wood plate above the entrance, were buried here.
This mausoleum is recognized to be a masterpiece of the world architecture for the perfection of its geometric forms. It is one of the most ancient buildings made from burnt bricks in Central Asia.

 Its intricate baked-terracotta brickwork – which gradually changes ‘personality’ through the day as the shadows shift – disguises walls almost 2m thick, helping it survive without restoration (except of the spiked dome) for 11 centuries.
The construction is of a 10.8-metre cube with four identical facades, all of which slope slightly inward and upon which sits a hemispherical cupola ringed with four domelets. Four internal arches supported by corner pillars form the squinch upon which rests the eight and 16-sided transition to the drum. This chortak ('four arch') system was revolutionary for the time and came to dominate countless subsequent memorial tombs in Transoxiana. From the outside the zone of transition is masked by a gallery of ten windows which provide light and ventilation for the cool inner tombs. The mausoleum is also rich in symbolism. Its cube not only refers back to the sacred kaaba stone at Mecca, but furthermore symbolizes the earth and complements its dome, symbol of the heavens, to create a metaphor of the universe.

In this video you can see the inside of the Mausleum.

As you know, taking photos of ourselves, turned to the tradition for us💝😻 

Despite the rainy and windy weather, we were over the moon😻😻😊😊

Thanks to our teacher and student we shared our informations and expressions with each other