MuseumsUnder 1 km away
Chorsu Gallery
A domed eighteenth-century trading hall behind the Registan, now used as an art gallery.
Shaybanid Dakhma
A raised marble platform on the Registan in Samarkand with 36 gravestones of the Shaybanid dynasty, including Muhammad Shaybani Khan, from the 16th century.
Ensembles16th century
About the place
A dakhma here is an open family burial platform. This one began in the early sixteenth century in the courtyard of the Shaybani Khan madrasa, where Princess Mehr Sultan had the graves gathered onto a high marble platform about 10–11 metres a side. It held 36 gravestones: the first burial was Mahmud Sultan in 1504, followed by Muhammad Shaybani Khan in 1510 and many sultans and princesses of the dynasty until 1586.
The platform has been moved twice: once when the road to the Bibi-Khanym mosque was laid, and again during the rebuilding of the city centre in 1960–1962, when it was set up on the Registan. Today it is part of a walk around the square.
Why go
- Gravestones of the Shaybanid dynasty
- Burial place of Muhammad Shaybani Khan
- On the Registan square
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EnsemblesUnder 1 km awayUNESCO World Heritage
Sher-Dor Madrasa
The 17th-century madrasa on the east side of the Registan in Samarkand, named for the tiger-like lions chasing gazelles on its portal.
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Chorsu Trading Dome, Samarkand
An 18th-century domed market hall just south-east of the Registan, now an art gallery run by the Academy of Arts.
EnsemblesUnder 1 km awayUNESCO World Heritage
Registan
The central square of old Samarkand, framed on three sides by the Ulugh Beg, Sher-Dor and Tilla-Kari madrasas.