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Tillya Sheikh Mosque
A mosque of 1890–1902 in the Khast Imam area of Tashkent, plain outside and richly carved in ganch inside, built by a pious merchant.
Barak Khan Madrasa
A 16th-century madrasa in the Hazrati Imam complex of old Tashkent, built around two earlier mausoleums of Shaybanid rulers.
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About the place
The madrasa grew out of two tombs. The larger, double-domed one holds Suyunchkhoja Khan, Shaybanid ruler of Tashkent, who died in 1525. In the mid-16th century the ruler Navruz Ahmad, known as Barak Khan, joined the tombs into a madrasa with student cells around a courtyard, and it took his name.
The main portal facing east is covered with glazed brick mosaic in geometric and girih patterns, unusual for Tashkent. The building stands on the Hazrati Imam square, across from the large modern Friday mosque.
Why go
- Glazed mosaic portal rare for Tashkent
- Tombs of Shaybanid rulers inside
- On the Hazrati Imam square in the old town
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Khast Imam Complex
The religious heart of old Tashkent: a square framed by madrasas, a large Friday mosque, the Kaffal Shashi mausoleum and a library that keeps an early Quran manuscript.
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Muyi Muborak Madrasa (Hazrati Imam complex)
An 1850s madrasa in Tashkent's Hazrati Imam complex that keeps the early Quran manuscript known as the Uthman Quran.
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Kaffal Shashi Mausoleum
A domed 1542 mausoleum-khanaka over the grave of the 10th-century scholar al-Kaffal ash-Shashi in Tashkent's Hazrati Imam complex.