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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.
Palace of Peoples' Friendship
Tashkent's largest concert hall, finished in 1981, with a facade based on muqarnas patterns and seating for up to 6,000 people.
Attractions1981About 30 minutes to see
About the place
The palace was designed by a team including Yevgeny Rozanov, who had earlier worked on the Lenin Museum, now the State Museum of History, and was completed in 1981. Its name remembers the volunteers who came to rebuild Tashkent after the 1966 earthquake. Until 2020 it appeared on the 100-som banknote.
The facade takes its rhythm from the stalactite muqarnas of local architecture and is faced with marble from Nurota and Gozgon. Inside are chandeliers, large plaster panels and three Florentine mosaics in the banquet hall. Concerts, festivals and state ceremonies are held here. It was listed as national heritage in 2024 and, as part of Tashkent's modernist architecture, by UNESCO in 2026.
Why go
- Facade inspired by muqarnas patterns
- Florentine mosaics inside
- Named for the rebuilding after the 1966 earthquake
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Muqimi Musical Theatre
Tashkent's Uzbek musical drama theatre, founded in 1939 and named after the poet Muqimi, staging musical comedies and dramas in Uzbek.
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Alisher Navoi Monument
A bronze figure of the poet Alisher Navoi under a turquoise-domed rotunda on the highest point of Tashkent's National Park.
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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.