Nurota

Nurota lies at the foot of the Nuratau mountains, where a spring rises beside an old fortress on the edge of the steppe. The place was known as Nur to the tenth-century historian Narshakhi. Its Chashma, or spring, became the centre of a revered religious complex with a mosque, bathhouse and well. The clear water and the fish living in it are held sacred. Buildings were added to the shrine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, serving pilgrims as well as the people of the oasis.