Cult Monuments in the Golden Horde (origin, evolution, and tradition) »

• Main Author: Emma Zilivinskaya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: State Institution «Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences» 2015-09-01
• Series: Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie
• Subjects: Golden Horde; cult architecture; mosques; minarets; madrasahs; khanaka; mausoleums; Asia Minor; Caucasus; Khorezm; nomads.
• Online Access: http://goldhorde.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/%D0%97%D0%9E-4-2015-54-70.pdf

The article analyzes the religious monuments of the Golden Horde. It addresses such categories of buildings as mosques, minarets, madrasahs, khanaka and mausoleums. Objects monumental architecture quite clearly reflect the different traditions in the addition of multicomponent urban culture of the Golden Horde. Analysis plan оf the mosques, the main structures of the Muslim city, showed that all the currently known Juma Mosque of the Golden Horde had a basilica plan. Such a plan which has been adopted in Asia Minor, namely, in Anatolia, where similar mosque became widespread in the Seljuk period. Asia Minor had the appearance and minarets. Disposition of the mausoleums is quite diverse. They were built under the influence of architectural schools of Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Khorezm and nomadic traditions. In spite of the presence of various building traditions and innovations, principles of cult institutions’ planning were uniform all over the Golden Horde, which implies the elaboration of a single, though eclectic in details, architectural style.