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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.
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.
Mausoleums19th century
About the place
The mausoleum honours Khoja Abdul Aziz Alambardor, whose title means standard-bearer; tradition holds that he was a saint who lived about 1,300 years ago and that the tomb stands over his grave. The present building dates from the nineteenth century.
It is a small, undecorated brick structure, almost square at about 9 by 8 metres, with an entrance portal and a dome rising to just over 10 metres. Nine metres to the east is a domed underground chillakhona, a cell for forty-day retreats, topped by a small lantern.
Why go
- Tomb of a legendary standard-bearer saint
- Underground chillakhona for spiritual retreats
- A quiet old cemetery in central Tashkent
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Oybek 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.