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Lal Bahadur Shastri Monument
A bust of India's second prime minister on Shastri Street in Tashkent, where he signed the Tashkent Declaration in 1966 and died the next day.
Lutheran Church (Kirche), Tashkent
A brick Lutheran church of the 1890s on Sadyk Azimov street, designed by Alexei Benois; services are held in German and Russian.
Ensembles1890s
About the place
Tashkent's Lutheran community began raising money for a church in 1877. Architect Alexei Benois drew a design with a medieval-style facade for about 120 worshippers, and the building was put up in fired brick; it was first consecrated in 1896, and regular services started in 1899.
The church was closed in 1937 and spent forty years as a warehouse, offices, a club and a hostel, suffering several fires. From 1977 the conservatory used it as an opera studio, installed an organ and held organ concerts. In 1993 it was returned to the Lutheran congregation, and it is again a working church with services in German and Russian.
Why go
- Brick church designed by Alexei Benois
- Organ installed during its years as a concert hall
- Services in German and Russian
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Republic Children's Library
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Mukhtar Ashrafi House Museum
The Tashkent flat where the composer Mukhtar Ashrafi lived from 1965 to 1975, a museum since 1982 with his manuscripts, photographs and posters.
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Central Park (Telman Park)
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