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Sufi Atlas
Kunya-Urgench · Turkmenistan

Kunya-Urgench

Medieval Khwarazmian capital and shrine city of Najm al-Dīn Kubrā, martyred here in 1221.

Sacred geography record

A place within a network

The Atlas treats a shrine or sacred city as more than a destination. It is a meeting place of biography, transmitted memory, architecture, pilgrimage, and the communities that have continued to interpret it.

Historical horizon

12th–13th c.

Associated traditions