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Contemporary Art Museum of Uzbekistan (CAMUZ)
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Ulli Hovli
A seventeenth-century family courtyard complex in Goybu village, Urgench district, built under Abulghazi Bahadur Khan for Turkmen elders; about 35 dwellings survive.
Ensembles1640–1694About 45 minutes to see
About the place
Ulli Hovli means "the big courtyard". It stands in the Turkmen quarter of Goybu village in the Urgench district and was built between 1640 and 1694, in the time of the Khiva ruler and historian Abulghazi Bahadur Khan. An inscription on the old gate and wall says the khan built it at the request of Khojamberdi and Shermamatboy, elders of the Salor Turkmens.
It began as a single large building of about a hundred rooms, home at first to fifteen families, and was built by Uzbek and Turkmen craftsmen together. Some 35 households remain inside today, so this is a living settlement; ask before you take photographs of people or homes.
Why go
- A seventeenth-century courtyard complex still lived in
- Gate inscription naming Abulghazi Bahadur Khan
- Built by Uzbek and Turkmen craftsmen together
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