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Rahmonquli Madrasa
A late 18th-century madrasa of 24 cells in central old Bukhara, where the reformer and writer Ahmad Donish studied.
Mullo Tursunjon Madrasa
A two-storey madrasa of 1805–1806 in central Bukhara, begun by a merchant and finished after his death by Emir Haydar.
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About the place
The Bukharan merchant Domullo Tursunjon began the madrasa in the Otaliq quarter, and when he died Emir Haydar of the Manghit dynasty completed it, as Tursunjon's will asked, in 1805–1806. Several of its teachers later held the rank of senior mufti.
It is a symmetrical two-storey building with a large projecting arch at the centre of the front that shelters the entrance. You reach it at the end of Mekhtar Ambar street, which starts by the western passage of the Telpak Furushon trading dome.
Why go
- A merchant's madrasa finished by an emir
- Two-storey courtyard building
- A few steps from the trading domes
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Rashid Madrasa
A two-storey 19th-century madrasa in central Bukhara, paid for by an Afghan tea merchant who also built a marble pool in front of it.
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Kunjak Madrasa
A small nineteenth-century madrasa from the Mangit period on Amiriy street in old Bukhara, now used for tourist services.
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Kalan Mosque
Bukhara's great Friday mosque beside the Kalan minaret, completed in 1514 on the site of earlier mosques, with a courtyard for about 12,000 people.