The Mosque has repeatedly been rebuilt, restored and renamed in different epochs.
It overlooks the Old City and is surrounded by the Chor-Su, Khadra and Eski Juva.
Tashkent. It is considered to be the third largest mosque in Uzbekistan after Bibi-Khanum in Samarkand and Poi-Kalyan in Bukhara
The foundation of the Khoja Akhror Vali Mosque was laid in 819. It was the highest point of the “shakhristan” (center) of ancient Tashkent. The Mosque has repeatedly been rebuilt, restored and renamed in different epochs. It overlooks the Old City and is surrounded by the Chor-Su, Khadra and Eski Juva.
The foundation of the Khoja Akhror Vali Mosque was laid in 819. It was the highest point of the “shakhristan” (center) of ancient Tashkent. The Mosque has repeatedly been rebuilt, restored and renamed in different epochs. It overlooks the Old City and is surrounded by the Chor-Su, Khadra and Eski Juva. This Juma mosque is counted one amongst the ancient 157 mosques of modern Tashkent. It is considered to be the third largest mosque in Uzbekistan after Bibi-Khanum in Samarkand and Poi-Kalyan in Bukhara. From the XV century date, the mosque has been named after one of the Sufi leaders of the oriental Middle Ages. Khoja Akhrar Valli presented the city with this building which was reconstructed on the foundation of the old Juma-mosque.