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Tura Murad Tura Minaret

One of the smallest minarets in Khiva's Itchan Kala, built in 1888 by the khan's younger brother, the poet Tura Murad, by the north-east corner of Kunya-Ark.

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About the place

Tura Murad Tura, a younger brother of Muhammad Rahim Khan II who wrote poetry under the name Murodiy, paid for a neighbourhood mosque, ablution room, school and this minaret in 1888. Only the minaret has survived, standing among houses at the north-east corner of the Kunya-Ark square on Boyoqchilar Street.

A story explains its stubby height: while the khan was away hunting, enemies told him his brother was building a tall tower to look into the royal harem, and Tura Murad, warned in time, had the minaret finished short.

Why go

  • A pocket-sized minaret in Itchan Kala
  • Built by a poet prince in 1888
  • Right by the Kunya-Ark square

Sources (2)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.uz.wikipedia.org

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