K 02 — Masjed-e kherqa (kherqa-Heiligtum / Sanctuary)
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Im Vordergrund der Hof des kherqa-Heiligtums, dahinter das Mausoleum von Ahmad Shah Durrani, von Osten gesehen. Der linke Teil des weissen Gebäudes ist die nach Mekka ausgerichtete Mosche. Das rechts anschliessende Gebäude mit flacher Kuppel ist das ursprünglich von Timur Shah erbaute kherqa-Heiligtum (masjed-e kherqa), in dem der Mantel des Propheten Mohammad aufbewahrt wird. Die von Dr. Benjamin Simpson um 1880 aufgenommene Fotografie K 02-3 zeigt vermutlich den Original-Zustand. K 02-1, 4 und 5 zeigt das Heiligtum, wie es unter Emir Habibullah Khan renoviert und abgeändert wurde und K 02-6 bis 9 sind spätere Aufnahmen. Der Mantel des Propheten wurde 1768 in Badakhshan von Ahmad Shahs General, Shah Wali Bamiza’i erbeutet.
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As seen from the east the mosque courtyard of the kherqa sanctuary is in the foreground and behind it stands the mausoleum of Ahmad Shah Durrani. The left part of the white building is the mosque aligned to Mecca. The right part with a flat dome is the kherqa sanctuary (masjed-e kherqa), containing the cloak of the prophet Mohammad, originally built by Timur Shah. Most probably the photograph K 02-3 taken by Benjamin Simpson during the 2nd Afghan War shows this original structure. K 02-1, 4 and 5 shows the sanctuary as renovated and altered under Emir Habibullah Khan, and K 02-6 to 9 shows later alterations. The cloak was taken from Badakhshan in 1768 by Ahmad Shah’s general, Shah Wali Bamiza’i while on campaign.
[Transcript:] Qet‘a-ye dowwom – aks-e kherqa-ye mobaraka ast wa az posht-e an gonbad-e ahmad shah ghazi ma’lum me-shawad.
[Übersetzung:] Nummer 2 - Bild des Heiligtums mit dem Mantel des Propheten, hinter dem die Kuppel [des Mausoleums] von Ahmad Shah Ghazi sichtbar ist.
[Translation:] Number 2 - A picture of the shrine of the Mantle of the Prophet behind which the cupola [of the mausoleum] of Ahmad Shah Ghazi is visible.
- The Illustrated London News (1880/2), Vol. 77, No. 2150, p. 157: Engraving of a view in the same direction, «Interior of the citadel, Candahar».
- Salnama-ye mujal-e kabul 1313/1934-35, opposite p. 215: The kherqa sanctuary as seen from the top of the tomb of Ahmad Shah Baba.
- Ahmad/Aziz (1936): Afghanistan - a brief survey, p. 38: A similar photo.
- W. Lentz (1936): Das Herz des Orients. In: Berliner Illustrirte No. 294: almost identical view.
- Ali (1955): A new guide to Afghanistan, p. 77: a later photo of the same building «Khirqa-i-Mubarak, the shrine of the sacred mantle of the prophet in Kandahar with the tomb of Ahmad Shah the Great in background».
- Sammlung Werner Otto von Hentig (1969), K 02-6: Frontale Aufnahme der Fassade nach Renovation.
- Dupree (1977): An historical guide to Afghanistan, p. 284: Da kherqa sheriff ziarat.
- Fufalza’i, Aziz al-Din Wakili (1367/1988): Tarikh-e kherqa-ye sharifa, p. 105.
- Maḥmūd al-Ḥusaynī Jāmī, Tārīkh-i Aḥmad Shāhī: Tarikh-e tashkil-i awwalin hukumat-i Afghanistan. Edited by Dr. Ghulām Ḥusayn Zargarī-nizhād. Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān.
- R.D. McChesney; M.M. Khorrami [Eds.] (2016): The history of Afghanistan, Fayz Muhammad Katib Hazarah’s Siraj al-tawarikh, Vol. 3, Part 3, p. 1156-57: Expanding of the western courtyard of the shrine ordered by Sardar Nasrullah Khan in October 1895 in connection with his visit to Kandahar on his way back from Europe. He ordered “to buy, with the agreement and approval of their owners, all the serais and houses which adjoined the Cloak or abutted its walls, include them within the (shrine’s) area and so add to it.” He also ordered “to install a silver screen (panjarah) around the chest in which the blessed cloak is stored and to make arrangements for fine carpets for the shrine floor.” Based on these preparations by his brother, Emir Habibullah Khan was able to order the enlargement and renovation of the sanctuary on the occasion of his visit to Kandahar in 1907.
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