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Mir-i-Arab Madrasa
The 16th-century madrasa facing the Kalyan Mosque on Bukhara's Poi Kalyan square, still a working Islamic school today.
Amir Alim Khan Madrasa
A madrasa of 1914–1915 beside Mir-i-Arab on the Poi Kalyan square in Bukhara, the last founded by a Bukharan emir; now a library.
Ensembles1914–1915
About the place
Sayyid Alim Khan, the last emir of Bukhara, paid for this madrasa in 1914–1915. It stands on the south side of the Poi Kalyan square, next to Mir-i-Arab Madrasa, on the site of the Qazi Kalon bathhouse, whose octagonal domed room was kept inside the new building.
The school taught Quranic commentary, hadith, law, arithmetic and history, at first only to Bukharans. It closed under Soviet rule and from 1924 became a library, later a children's library; it still works as a library, and was renovated in 2011.
Why go
- The last madrasa founded by a Bukharan emir
- On Poi Kalyan square beside Mir-i-Arab
- An old bathhouse dome kept inside
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Kalan Mosque
Bukhara's great Friday mosque beside the Kalan minaret, completed in 1514 on the site of earlier mosques, with a courtyard for about 12,000 people.
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Po-i-Kalyan ensemble
The square at the centre of old Bukhara: the Kalyan Minaret of 1127, the large Kalyan Mosque and the working Mir-i-Arab madrasa facing it.
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Toki Zargaron
The jewellers' dome, the largest and northernmost of the trading domes, a few steps from the Ulugbek and Abdulaziz Khan madrasas.