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Olimjon Caravanserai
A state-owned caravanserai of 1813 in old Bukhara, where Afghan merchants once traded and a local photographer later ran a well-known studio and gallery.
Turki Jandi Mausoleum
A small, much-revered shrine in the old town of Bukhara over the grave of the 11th-century scholar Turki Jandi, with an old stone well.
MausoleumsBuilding 16th–17th century
About the place
The shrine honours Abu Nasr Ahmad al-Jandi, a hadith scholar and imam of Bukhara who died in the early 11th century. Many other scholars were buried in the cemetery around him; the present building went up over the grave in the 16th–17th centuries, after the earlier one fell into ruin.
The place was so revered that riders used to dismount and lead their animals past it; legend says the grave threw anyone who stayed in the saddle. The old cemetery has been built over with houses, but the mausoleum and its stone well remain on Namozgoh street in the southern part of the old town.
Why go
- Local legend of the riders who had to dismount
- Old stone well at the shrine
- Quiet residential lanes of the old town
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Gaukushon Madrasa
A 1560s madrasa of the Khoja Gaukushon ensemble in central Bukhara, set on an irregular plot beside a mosque, pool and small minaret.
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Goziyon Madrasa
An old madrasa in the Goziyon quarter of central Bukhara, near Khoja Gaukushon, where students from many towns lodged in the 18th–19th centuries.
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Khoja Gaukushon Ensemble
A 16th-century madrasa, mosque and minaret on a quiet square south of the trading domes, named after the cattle market that once stood here.