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A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, students, wanderers, martyrs & invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan & the strange shifts, encounters, & accidents that combine to create an identity.
In the late 19th century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return.
Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, “The White Mosque,” after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village lasted for fifty years.
In pursuit of this curious history, Samatar discovers a variety of characters whose lives intersect around the ancient Silk Road, from a 15th-century astronomer-king, to an intrepid Swiss woman traveler of the 1930s, to the first Uzbek photographer, & explores such topics as Central Asian cinema, Mennonite martyrs, & Samatar’s own complex upbringing as the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite & a Somali-Muslim, raised as a Mennonite of color in America.
A secular pilgrimage to a lost village and a near-forgotten history, The White Mosque traces the porous & ever-expanding borders of identity, asking: How do we enter the stories of others? And how, out of the tissue of life, with its weird incidents, buried archives, & startling connections, does a person construct a self?
°°°Sofia Samatar is an American of Somali & Swiss German Mennonite background. Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld, Stone Telling, & Strange Horizons. She wrote her novel A Stranger in Olondria in Yambio, South Sudan, where she worked as an English teacher. She has worked in Egypt…
