Sirli Mosque

History

The Sirli Mosque stands on Kokand Street in Namangan. It was built in the 19th or early 20th century in the village of Tepakurgan, and the sources disagree on the date: the writer Abdulla Jabbar gives 1840, while the researcher B. Ruzinov, having studied the entrance portal, suggests 1910. Closed in the Soviet period, it had fallen into ruin by the late 1980s. Local people began using it again in the 1990s, and it was registered as a mosque in 1998. In 2002 a short circuit burned the building to the ground; a new domed mosque of 22 by 18 metres rose in its place in 2002–2004, followed by a 15-metre minaret, and in 2014 the interior was decorated in the Fergana Valley style. The original building had a 10-by-19-metre pool in front and an iwan with a painted ceiling and carved columns with stalactite capitals.