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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.
Kaffal Shashi Mausoleum
A domed 1542 mausoleum-khanaka over the grave of the 10th-century scholar al-Kaffal ash-Shashi in Tashkent's Hazrati Imam complex.
Mausoleums1541–1542About 25 minutes to see
About the place
The mausoleum honours Imam Abu Bakr al-Kaffal ash-Shashi, a scholar of Tashkent (old Shash), and gives the whole Hazrati Imam area its name. The original tomb has not survived; the present building was put up in 1541–1542 by the court architect Gulyam Husayn in baked brick.
It is an asymmetrical domed portal building of the khanaka type, with cells where pilgrims once stayed, and a small courtyard of later family vaults to the south. Closed for a time in the Soviet period, it is again a place of pilgrimage at the heart of the Hazrati Imam complex, next to the Muyi Muborak Madrasa.
Why go
- The shrine that gives Hazrati Imam its name
- A 1542 building by the court architect Gulyam Husayn
- Next to the Muyi Muborak Madrasa
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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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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.
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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.