BazaarsUnder 1 km awayUNESCO World Heritage
Toki Telpak Furushon
The hat sellers' dome, set over a junction of several streets between the other two domes; today a market for textiles, caps and books.
Kulita Caravanserai
An old trading inn joined to the Toki Telpakfurushon dome in Bukhara, home since 1992 to Uzbekistan's first museum of blacksmithing.
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About the place
The caravanserai adjoins the Toki Telpakfurushon, the cap-sellers' trading dome, in the centre of old Bukhara. Women's headwear was sold here first, then money changers and lenders took over, and later Tatar merchants lived here and stored goods brought from Russia. After 1920 it served as a warehouse and then a hostel.
Since 1992 it has housed the first museum of blacksmithing in Uzbekistan.
Why go
- Blacksmithing museum in a historic caravanserai
- Right beside a covered trading dome
- In the centre of old Bukhara
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Magok-i-Kurpa Mosque
A two-storey mosque of 1637 next to the Toqi Telpak Furushon dome in Bukhara, its lower floor sunk below today's street level under twelve domes.
BazaarsUnder 1 km awayUNESCO World Heritage
Tim of Abdullah Khan
A covered trading hall from the 1570s between the domes, once used by silk and wool traders, now home to carpet and textile sellers.
EnsemblesUnder 1 km awayUNESCO World Heritage
Magoki-Attari Mosque
A mosque sunk several metres below today's street level, with a carved 12th-century facade; it now holds a small carpet museum.