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Allakuli Khan Madrasa

A tall-portalled madrasa from the 1830s near the East Gate, part of a trading quarter with a caravanserai and a covered market.

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About the place

Allakuli Khan, who also built Tash-Hauli, commissioned this madrasa in the 1830s on the eastern edge of Itchan Kala. Its portal is one of the tallest in the inner town and is faced with blue and white majolica tiles. The madrasa housed a library for the khanate's religious schools.

It stands beside the khan's caravanserai and the tim, a domed covered market, built around the same time. Together they formed a trading quarter by Palvan Darvaza, the gate that faced the road to Bukhara.

The covered market and the caravanserai yard still hold shops, which makes this corner of the old town busier than the rest.

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  1. 1.Wikidata

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