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Juybori Kalon Madrasa
A 17th-century madrasa in south-west Bukhara founded by the mother of Abdulaziz Khan, once among the city's most respected schools.
Khalfa Khudoydod Complex
A Sufi complex of the late 18th to mid-19th century in Bukhara's Hauzi Nau quarter, with a khanqah, madrasa, mosque and covered cistern.
Ensembles1777–1855
About the place
The complex was built between 1777 and 1855, under the Manghit emirs, by Sheikh Khudoydod, a Sufi from Khorezm known as Khalfa Khudoydod. According to a pilgrims' guide of the time he bought twelve plots of land here and built a khanqah, a madrasa, a covered cistern and an ablution house; there was also a lodging for blind Quran reciters.
It stands in a quarter long home to saddlers, leatherworkers and weavers in the south-west of the old town. The two cemeteries that once surrounded it were cleared in Soviet years, and a school now stands on that ground.
Why go
- Covered cistern (sardoba) of the 19th century
- A quarter of craftsmen in the old town
- Founded by a Sufi from Khorezm
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