MausoleumsUnder 1 km away
Khoja Alambardor Mausoleum
A plain nineteenth-century brick tomb with a portal and dome in Tashkent's Kamalan cemetery, with an underground prayer cell beside it.
Chapel of St George, Tashkent
A small 1886 chapel over the grave of Russian soldiers killed in 1865, standing in a residential mahalla near the lost Kamolon Gate.
Ensembles1886
About the place
The chapel marks the common grave of 24 Russian soldiers who died in June 1865, when General Chernyaev's troops stormed Tashkent. The grave was first marked with a slab and pyramids of cannonballs; the chapel, dedicated to St George, was added in 1886, and until 1917 a procession came here every year on the anniversary.
After the revolution the site was looted, and in 1949 a local family received the plot and built a house beside it. The chapel still stands next to that house in the Kamolon mahalla and was fully restored by Easter 2020; it is on a family's land, so visit with a guide or ask politely.
Why go
- A rare surviving monument of 1880s Russian Tashkent
- A living mahalla around a small chapel
- Restored in 2020
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Oybek Monument
A seated granite-and-copper statue of the writer Oybek on the Alley of Writers in Tashkent's National Park, facing the Navoi monument.
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Abulkasim Madrasa
A 19th-century madrasa in central Tashkent named after the sheikh who built it, now a courtyard of craft workshops beside the parliament.
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Hamid Olimjon Monument
A bronze statue of the Uzbek poet Hamid Olimjon on the Alley of Writers in Tashkent's Alisher Navoi National Park.