Sheikh Khudoydod Vali Mosque

Friday mosque in Gazira village, Jomboy District, within the heritage-listed shrine complex of the 16th-century Sufi sheikh Khudoydod Vali.

Gazira mahalla, Jomboy District

Sheikh Khudoydod Vali

Sheikh Khudoydod Vali, after whom the mosque is named, was born in 866 AH (1461–1462) in the village of Saranj in Karmana District of today’s Navoi Region. A scholar of Islamic law and a poet who wrote ghazals in Persian and Turkic, he trained more than fifty disciples. He died in 939 AH (1532) and was buried in Gazira.

Uzbekistan’s national register of cultural heritage lists the Khoja Khudoydodi Vali (Vali Bobo) complex as a 19th-century monument comprising a mosque, a garden, a pool, a tomb (dakhma) and a tug, a ceremonial pole, over the gravestone.

Official list: Listed by the Samarkand branch of the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan (sammuslim.uz).

Visiting a mosque: cover shoulders and knees (women should wear a headscarf) and take your shoes off at the door; avoid prayer times and ask before taking photos.

Details come from official sources and were checked in October 2026. Details may change — please check before you visit. Something wrong? Let us know

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