Bahouddin Naqshbandiy dahmasi (Bahouddin Naqshband majmuasi)

This grave monument marks the burial place of Bahauddin Naqshband, the 14th-century Sufi sheikh who founded the Naqshbandiyya order, at Qasr-i Arifan, his birthplace roughly ten kilometers northeast of Bukhara. He died in 1389, and in 1544 his resting place was formalized as a dahma, a raised floor vault enclosed by a carved marble fence, which remains the devotional focus of pilgrims visiting the site. Over the following centuries the modest grave grew into a much larger memorial complex that now includes a mausoleum, a khanqah built by Abdulaziz Khan to house pilgrims, two mosques, a necropolis holding emirs from the Shaybanid, Ashtarkhanid, and Manghit dynasties, and a museum devoted to the history of Sufism. The dahma and its surrounding complex are regarded as one of the most important pilgrimage sites associated with the Naqshbandi order anywhere in the Islamic world, and the complex continues to receive official as well as religious visits.