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Tillya Sheikh Mosque
A mosque of 1890–1902 in the Khast Imam area of Tashkent, plain outside and richly carved in ganch inside, built by a pious merchant.
Muyi Muborak Madrasa (Hazrati Imam complex)
An 1850s madrasa in Tashkent's Hazrati Imam complex that keeps the early Quran manuscript known as the Uthman Quran.
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About the place
Mirzo Ahmad Qushbegi, governor of Tashkent under the Kokand khans, built this madrasa in 1856–1857 in the Hazrati Imam quarter, on the site of a 16th-century building that had fallen into ruin. Its name means "the blessed hair": a hair of the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have been kept here.
Today it holds the Uthman Quran, a very early manuscript on deer skin that tradition dates to the time of Caliph Uthman in the 7th century and says Timur brought from Syria in the 14th. The building follows the courtyard plan of Central Asian madrasas and has doors in carved khatam woodwork; the rest of the Hazrati Imam complex is around it.
Why go
- Home of the Uthman Quran manuscript
- Part of the Hazrati Imam complex
- Carved khatam doors
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Khast Imam Complex
The religious heart of old Tashkent: a square framed by madrasas, a large Friday mosque, the Kaffal Shashi mausoleum and a library that keeps an early Quran manuscript.
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Hazrati Imam Friday Mosque
Tashkent's main Friday mosque, built in 2007 in the Hazrati Imam complex, with two 52-metre minarets and carved sandalwood columns.
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Barak Khan Madrasa
A 16th-century madrasa in the Hazrati Imam complex of old Tashkent, built around two earlier mausoleums of Shaybanid rulers.