Boboyi Poradoz Mausoleum

 The Boboyi Poradoz Mausoleum (Uzbek: Boboyi Poradoʻz maqbarasi) is a monument of architecture in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. The mausoleum was built in the 19th century and is located behind the Salakhona gate. Today the mausoleum is located opposite the Ibn Sina Library of Bukhara. The mausoleum is included in the National List of Objects of Material Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan of Republican Importance.


The mausoleum of Hazrat Boboyi Poradoz is located in the southeast part of Bukhara, near the city gate of Salakhona. Here, in the early 20th century, there was a mazar with a complex of architectural structures (mausoleums, mosques, rooms for pilgrims, residential houses, wells). Now only the center of the mausoleum remains, where Boboyi Poradoz was once buried, and in his honor the whole mazar was named. Boboyi Poradoz was a scholar and sheikh, born in Bukhara in 842 and died in 925.



His profession was patchwork sewing and shoemaking, so he is also considered a contemporary of shoemakers. He was considered the patron of all craftsmen who dealt with needles: shoemakers, tailors, gold embroiderers. His name in Persian means “grandfather who patched up”, and there are many legends associated with this name, one of them tells about a man who tried to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, asking Boboyi Poradoz to sew him a sturdy shoe for the road, the master made it from watermelon peel, but convinced the pilgrim of the durability of the product. After several years of travel, the pilgrim returned in shoes that had not lost their original appearance. Since then, the fame of Boboyi Poradoz as a skilled master spread throughout the district, and the masters unanimously chose him as their pir (head).

In this mausoleum, there are graves of many people, besides Boboyi Poradoz. The mausoleum of Boboyi Poradoz is one of the few mausoleums built not for the burial of representatives of the ruling dynasty, nobility or clergy, but for the burial of a craftsman.


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