Naqshbandi Center, Jerusalem

<H3><A HREF="naqshb-center.html">The Naqshabandi Center In Jerusalem</A></H3> <P>The center was founded in 1616, by the Bukhari family. The family came from the town of Bukhara in Uzbekistan, in order to teach the nakshabandi Sufi meditation and to help travellers. Another target was to form a bridge of cooperation, understanding and love. The center gradually became a conference meeting ground for pilgrims.</P> <P>The center includes a mosque for prayer and meditation as well as a library rich with old transcripts, written by the sheiks of the quarter. The books are unique. The library contains 300 books, as well as other books collected through out the years.</P> <P>The center also has a graveyard where the sheiks of the quarter are buried. In it lies the former sheik, my father Sheik Mousa Bukhari, who passed away in 1973. Visitors used to donate in order to support, sustain and enable the center, and to supply help needed by the pilgrims and the poor in Jerusalem.</P> <P>After 1967, along with the closure of the borders between Israel and the Arab countries, pilgrims suffered many hardships, but still some pilgrims came from Turkey, South Africa and Europe. Donations ceased to cover the expenses of the center, which include renovation, taxes and sustenance.</P> <P>Among other activities at the center, we have dialogue between different religions, seminars on peace and Sufism, and we bring together people from different religions for the sake of peace. Other issues discussed are the role of religious people in playing a part in peace and cooperation, receiving delegations arriving in the Holy Land and holding conferences for Sufi followers.</P>  <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.2"> </script><script type="text/javascript"> </script><noscript><img height="1" width="1" alt="" src="http://nht-2.extreme-dm.com/n2.g?login=jpeace&pid=bknaqsh&j=n&jv=n"/> </noscript>