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Chopon Ota Mausoleum

A late-eighteenth-century shrine in Tashkent's Chilanzar district, dedicated to Chopon Ota, the legendary patron of shepherds and their flocks.

MausoleumsLate 18th century

About the place

Chopon Ota is honoured across Central Asia as the protector of shepherds and sheep. This building is most likely not a real grave but a qadamjo, a place linked to a holy figure. Legends credit Timur or Ulugh Beg with ordering it, but archaeological evidence dates it to the late eighteenth century.

It stands in the Chopon Ota cemetery in the 13th quarter of Chilanzar, at the end of an alley that leads from the mosque at the entrance of the complex. Look for its outline and the patterns laid in brick; its shape served as a model for several later tombs in Tashkent. The cemetery lies on part of an old settlement mound.

Why go

  • Shrine of the patron of shepherds
  • Patterned brickwork copied by later Tashkent tombs
  • Set in an old cemetery on an ancient mound

Sources (4)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.uz.wikipedia.org
  4. 4.openstreetmap.org

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