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Sufi Atlas
Merv · Turkmenistan

Merv

Once one of the largest cities in the medieval world; site of the shrine of Yūsuf Hamadānī.

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

Ancient / 11th–12th c.

Associated traditions