1. 1 st Academic lyceum under Samarkand State Architectual and building Institute Presentation done by English language teacher Latipov Aziz Akbaraliyevich

2. Doniyor Hodge is one of the most famous places of worship in Samarkand. With the same reverence to it areMuslims, Christians and Jews. Doniyor, Daniil, Daniel - the names of the same saint in the Muslim, Christian and Judaic religions.

3. 603 BC The prophet Daniel is revered by three world religions. He is one of the four great Israel prophets in Judaism, the prophet, whose book is included in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, and the prophet in Islamic tradition.

4. Daniyar Hodge (St.Daniel) was born in Jerusalem in 603 BC and descended from the kings David and Solomon. When Israel in 586 BC was captured by the king of Babylon Novuhudonosor, Daniel was taken to Babylon, along with other young men of noble birth. There's 15-year-old Daniel along with his three friends after a special school identified in the service at the royal court.

5. God gave Daniel the ability to understand the importance of visions and dreams, and this ability he showed and explained Novuhudonosor two his dream, which greatly embarrassed the king. In his book, the prophet Daniel recorded several prophetic visions concerning the end of the world and the second coming of Christ. In terms of the content of his prophetic book, which consists of 14 chapters, has much in common with the revelation of Evangelist St. John.

6. During the reign of Darius, when Daniel took an important government post, envious of the number of pagan lords slandered him before Darius and made to Daniel was thrown to the lions. But God has preserved the prophet unharmed. Having examined the matter, Darius ordered Daniel's detractors throw the same penalty, and the lions immediately devoured them. A bit later, Daniel received a revelation of the 70 sevens, which indicated the first coming of the Messiah and the grounds of his kingdom.

7. According to legend, the prophet Daniel showed Cyrus prophecy about him in the book of Isaiah, who lived two hundred years before. Struck by this prophecy, the king commanded the Jews to build a temple in his honor in Jerusalem. At the same time the king was again saved from the death that threatened him for killing the dragon, which deifies the Gentiles.

8. According to legend, Amir Temur in his next seven-year campaign in Asia Minor (1397- 1404 gg.) made a pilgrimage to the mausoleum of the saint and decided to move part of his remains to the capital of his empire - Samarkand. It is believed that Timur carried his hand holy. According to legend, when a caravan consisting of fifty camels approached the capital, they stopped on the bank of the Siab river, where now there is a mausoleum, a horse, carrying the remains, stood on this site and did not want to move on.

9. Above the burial place of the Mausoleum was built. Then, years later, the tomb of a sudden started to grow, reaching a length of 17 meters. In this regard, in the past, his tomb was completed and lengthened periodically, at the beginning of XX century over the burial of the holy mausoleum was built with a chain of domes.

10. City residents for many centuries used water from the spring believing in its healing power. The place also wins its peace and beauty, especially in the warmer months, when a lot of greenery and a few meters from the source on the Siab river swim swans and ducks.

11. The place is an object of pilgrimage for both local residents and visitors from around the world. In 1996, arrived in Samarkand, the late Russian Patriarch Alexy II visited the mausoleum, and hallowed it. It is said that after the consecration, close the mausoleum again blossom pistachio tree, which was considered dead.

12. A curious fact - many pilgrims who arrived in this holy to Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the place is also used Zoroastrian tradition - turn in prayer to the Holy One and the remains of cloth tied to the growing trees.

13. To accomodate this, his tomb has been periodically extended. Nowadays this is a six domed Mausoleum, of which five sustained, with a 18m sarcophagus, stepping into which (with Your shoes off please) You can see pilgrims circumambulating it. The mausoleum was built at the beginning of the XXth century by the guild of the Samarkand soap makers.

24. With the name of ALLAH!

26. May Allah Have Mercy on his Soul