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Fergana Region

  • Palace of Khudayar KhanEnsembles

    Kokand

    Palace of Khudayar Khan

    The palace of the last rulers of the Kokand Khanate, with a tiled facade, painted ceilings and courtyards that now hold the local museum.

  • Jami Mosque, KokandEnsembles

    Kokand

    Jami Mosque, Kokand

    Kokand's Friday mosque, known for its long open porch held up by rows of carved wooden columns, with a minaret beside the courtyard.

  • Narbutabiy MadrasaEnsembles

    Kokand

    Narbutabiy Madrasa

    A late 18th-century madrasa in Kokand with a domed portal and a quiet courtyard, still used as a religious school.

  • Dakhma-i-Shakhon MausoleumMausoleums

    Kokand

    Dakhma-i-Shakhon Mausoleum

    The burial place of the Kokand khans, with a carved wooden porch and a tiled portal, in a cemetery near the Narbutabiy madrasa.

  • Khonakhan MosqueEnsembles

    Margilan

    Khonakhan Mosque

    A neighbourhood mosque in Margilan with a broad wooden porch and a small courtyard, in the old part of town.

  • Rishtan Ceramics WorkshopsMuseums

    Rishtan

    Rishtan Ceramics Workshops

    A town of family pottery workshops where plates and bowls are painted by hand and finished in the deep blue ishkor glaze.

  • Fergana Regional MuseumMuseums

    Fergana

    Fergana Regional Museum

    The region's main museum in Fergana city, covering archaeology, crafts and nature of the valley, with roots in the late 19th century.

  • Gishtli Mosque, KokandEnsembles

    Kokand

    Gishtli Mosque, Kokand

    A brick neighbourhood mosque of the early 20th century in Kokand, with a painted porch ceiling on twelve carved wooden columns.

  • Miyon Hazrat MadrasaEnsembles

    Kokand

    Miyon Hazrat Madrasa

    A three-courtyard madrasa in Kokand built for the scholar Miyon Ahad from Peshawar, where the poet Muqimi studied; one of his cells is a small museum.

  • Museum of Great ScholarsMuseums

    Kokand

    Museum of Great Scholars

    A museum in Kokand, opened in 2018, that traces science and literature in Central Asia from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century.

  • Karkidon ReservoirNature

    Kuva district, Fergana region

    Karkidon Reservoir

    A mountain-foot reservoir on the Kuvasoy river near the Kyrgyz border in Fergana region, built in the 1960s behind a 70-metre dam.

  • Kamol Qozi MadrasaEnsembles

    Kokand

    Kamol Qozi Madrasa

    A Kokand madrasa of 1830–1832 with a tiled portal and corner towers, built for the sons of local nobles and now restored as a guesthouse.

  • Tepa QorgonArchaeology

    Kokand

    Tepa Qorgon

    A seventeenth-century archaeological site on Postindoz street in Kokand, protected as part of the Kokand state museum-reserve.

  • ShakhimardanNature

    Shakhimardan

    Shakhimardan

    A mountain village in an Uzbek exclave surrounded by Kyrgyzstan, set at the meeting of two rivers below the Alay foothills.

  • Said Ahmad Khoja MadrasaEnsembles

    Margilan

    Said Ahmad Khoja Madrasa

    A late 19th-century madrasa in Margilan, restored in 2017 as a crafts centre, with a mosque whose ceilings are painted throughout.

  • Museums

    Margilan

    Yodgorlik Silk Factory

    A Margilan workshop where atlas and adras are still made by hand, from unwinding cocoons to tying, dyeing and weaving the threads.

  • Museums

    Margilan

    Margilan Crafts Development Centre

    A centre where master weavers pass on traditional atlas and adras techniques to apprentices, with workshops visitors can watch.

  • Archaeology

    Kuva

    Ancient Kuva

    The excavated remains of an early town on the edge of present-day Kuva, including the site of a Buddhist sanctuary.

  • Nature

    Fergana

    Al-Fergani Park

    Fergana city's large central park, named after the medieval astronomer al-Farghani, with shaded alleys, cafés and family attractions.

  • Crafts

    Rishtan

    Alisher Nazirov Ceramics Workshop

    Workshop, school and house museum of Rishtan potter Alisher Nazirov, where you can watch the town's glazed ceramics being made.

  • Ensembles

    Buvayda district

    Podsho Pirim Complex

    Shrine complex in Bekobod village, Buvayda district, with a 15th–16th-century tomb and gateway and an early 20th-century mosque.

  • Mausoleums

    Buvayda district

    Bibi Buvayda Mausoleum

    Timurid-era mausoleum of the 15th–16th centuries in Buvayda district, Fergana region, on Uzbekistan's tentative list for the Silk Roads World Heritage nomination.

  • Museums

    Kokand

    Hamza House Museum

    A Kokand museum devoted to the poet and playwright Hamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy, housed in a 1989 building by architect S. Sutyagin.