Ruhabad mausoleum

According to the Arabian traveler Ibn Battuta, the Central Asian sheikh Burkhan ad-Din Sagardji was a head of Muslims in Peking. Earlier Ibn Battuta met him in India. When the sheikh Sagardji died, his son Abu Said transported the body to Samarqand and buried beside mazar of Samarqand sheikh Basir under father's will. Abu Said Sagardji stayed in Samarqand and occupied a place among the most esteemed clerics at Amir Temur's court. Amir Temur caused to build a mausoleum above the tomb of sheikh Burkhan ad-Din Sagardji. The mausoleum was named Ruhabad-"House of Spirit".

The sons of sheikh, Abu Said and Shaikhzoda Isom ad-Din as well as the other members of Sagardji family were buried there later, in particular, "Chinese princess ", a wife of sheikh Sagardji. The legend says that under the dome there is a box with seven hairs of Prophet Muhamma. Ruhabad mausoleum adjoins the summer mosque, which decoration bears traces of eastern-Turkistan or Chinese traditions. The small minaret added the complex at the end the 19th-beginning of 20th centuries.