[5] Its history goes back to the distant Sogdian country, when this area was the site of the Makh (Moon) bazaar, there was a temple and images of folk deities were sold.

The radically rebuilt burnt brick mosque with a flat slab hall on round columns was smaller in size.

Over time, the mosque became dilapidated and in the second half of the XII century a new building was built in its place, which has survived to this day.

[10] By the first half of the XVI century the mosque so "sunk" into the ground that during the period of great reconstruction of this part of the city by the ruler Abdulaziz-khan (1540-1550) it even wanted to demolish it.

But this was prevented by Ahmad Kasani (d. 1542), the leader of the Sufi brotherhood Naqshbandiya, who liked to pray and meditate in the Magoki Attari Mosque.

The round columns in the interior were replaced by square ones, the double domes of the ceiling rested on them, the niche of the mihrab was lined with marble.

In the upper part of the eastern wall the entrance was broken through and a small vestibule connected by a staircase to the hall of the mosque was added.

[11] In the niche of the portal in front of the vestibule above the entrance to the mosque placed a mosaic construction inscription with the date of reconstruction, from which a small fragment has survived to our time.

950), named the mosque built on the site of the former temple "maghāk", i.e. "pit", because even then half of it was concealed from view by the rising soil level.