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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.
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.
Ensembles1890–1902About 15 minutes to see
About the place
Tillashayx, a merchant from Tashkent's Parchabof quarter and a descendant of Khoja Ahrar, built the mosque in 1890–1902 with a year's profit from trading sheep from China. It reopened on 7 May 1945, was repaired in 1955–1963 by the master Shirin Muradov, and was restored again in 2007 when the Khast Imam complex was rebuilt around it.
The square building has a dome, two small minarets and an entrance porch with three arches. The outside is undecorated, but inside the walls and the underside of the dome are covered with carved ganch and floral patterns, and the doors are made in the khatamkori inlay technique.
Why go
- Carved ganch interior by contrast with a plain exterior
- Repaired by the master Shirin Muradov
- Part of a visit to the Khast Imam complex
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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.
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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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Hazrati Imam Friday Mosque
Tashkent's main Friday mosque, built in 2007 in the Hazrati Imam complex, with two 52-metre minarets and carved sandalwood columns.