Srinagar. 26th December, 2014. Devotees praying after asar nimaz at Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab (also known as Mausoleum Hazrat Khawaja Naqshbandh Sahib) is a Muslim shrine, or ziyarat, in Kashmir,.This shrine is named after the well known Bukhara mystic, Khawaja Syed Bha-u-Deen Naqsaband, the founder of a Sufi order. It is one of the important shrines, located amidst a large area in which this shrine is built was called Sikander-pore because it was built by Sultan Sikandar (1389-1413)(Sikandar Butshikan). Credit: sofi suhail/Alamy Live News
Srinagar, Indian Administered Kashmir: 26 December Devotees praying after asar nimaz at Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab (also known as Mausoleum Hazrat Khawaja Naqshbandh Sahib) is a Muslim shrine, or ziyarat, in Kashmir,.This shrine is named after the well known Bukhara mystic, Khawaja Syed Bha-u-Deen Naqsaband, the founder of a Sufi order. It is one of the important shrines, located amidst a large area in which this shrine is built was called Sikander-pore because it was built by Sultan Sikandar (1389-1413)(Sikandar Butshikan). During the Chak times Sulatn Hussain Chak (1563-1570) built a garden in this area. According to Tareekh-e-Hassan Zain-ul-Abidin (Budshah) had built a Shrine for Syed Mohammad Owaisi in Isham, Kashmir. Owaisi died in 1484 and that shrine was more or less abandoned. In 1633 Khawja Khawand Mahmood obtained a fatwa to demolish the old shrine and used the same material to build the present Naqashband shrine, in what at that time would have been Hussian Chaks old garden. Because of Khawja Khawand Mahmood’s name the neighborhood is still called Khwaja Bazzar. After Khawja Khawand Mahmood’s death in 1640 in Lahore, his son Khawaja Moin-Ud-Din Naqashbandi came to Kashmir to look after the shrine. He died in 1674 and is buried at the shrine. When the holy relic of prophet Mohammad’s hair was brought to Kashmir in 1699, it was first kept at this shrine. There was not enough space to accommodate the crowds that came to see the holy relic. So the Mughal Governor at that time donated what was then called Sadiq Khan Bagh. This place became the present Hazratbal Shrine that has since then housed the holy relic. In 1886 Nawab of Dhakka Khwaja Ahsanullah, whose ancestors were from Kashmir, sent money that was used for major renovation of the present building of the is in Nowhatta on the road between the Dastagir Sahib and the Jama Masjid. Part of its compound was converted into Martyrs’ Graveyard in 1931. The market in the vicinity is
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