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Orif Gulkhani House Museum

The Samarkand home of the poet Orif Gulkhani (born 1879), a museum since 1993 with his manuscripts, books and household things, and a garden.

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About the place

Orif Gulkhani, a poet who wrote in Tajik and Uzbek, was born in Samarkand in 1879, studied in Samarkand and Bukhara and taught at a city madrasa. He lived in this house for almost all his life and gathered local poets and students here for readings. The museum opened in 1993, and the street was named after him.

You can see the room where he wrote, about 300 of his manuscripts and some 2,500 objects: books on history and calligraphy, divans of Hafiz and Bedil, the cradle used by his children and grandchildren, a water pipe, clay jugs and his clothes. Fruit trees and flowers grow in the courtyard garden.

Why go

  • A poet's house kept as he lived in it
  • Hundreds of manuscripts and old books
  • A quiet courtyard garden

Sources (3)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.uz.wikipedia.org

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