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Itchan Kala
The walled inner town of Khiva, where madrasas, mosques, minarets and khans' palaces stand close together along narrow lanes.
Places to see
Monuments, bazaars and landscapes across the country, with what each one is and how to visit it.
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Itchan Kala walls and gates
Thick mud-brick walls with rounded towers that ring the inner town of Khiva, entered through four gates facing the four directions.
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Kalta Minor
A broad, unfinished minaret covered from base to top in turquoise and blue glazed tiles, standing near the West Gate of Itchan Kala.
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Kunya-Ark
The khans' citadel inside Itchan Kala, with a tiled summer mosque, a reception hall, a former mint and a watchtower over the old town.
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Juma Mosque
A low, flat-roofed Friday mosque whose single hall is held up by a forest of carved wooden columns, some much older than the building itself.
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Islam Khodja Minaret and Madrasa
The tallest minaret in Khiva, banded in turquoise and white, beside a small madrasa that now holds a museum of applied arts.
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Tash-Hauli Palace
The khans' main palace from the 1830s, built around courtyards for the harem, receptions and justice, with tall carved columns and blue tiled walls.
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Pakhlavan Mahmud Mausoleum
The shrine of Khiva's patron saint, a poet and wrestler, under a turquoise dome; a working place of pilgrimage with richly tiled rooms.
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Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasa
The largest madrasa in Khiva, built in the 1850s next to Kalta Minor, with a tiled portal and two storeys of cells around a wide courtyard.
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Allakuli Khan Madrasa
A tall-portalled madrasa from the 1830s near the East Gate, part of a trading quarter with a caravanserai and a covered market.
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Muhammad Rahim Khan Madrasa
A madrasa opposite Kunya-Ark, built for the khan who was also a poet under the pen name Feruz; it now tells the story of his reign.
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Palvan Darvaza (East Gate)
The eastern gate of Itchan Kala, a long vaulted passage lined with niches that once led out to the main market and the road east.
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Ak Mosque
The "White Mosque" by the east gate of Itchan Kala: a small domed hall with a shaded porch on three sides, finished in 1842.
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Kutlug Murad Inak Madrasa
A madrasa of 1804–1812 in Itchan Kala built by the uncle of Allakuli Khan, who is buried under its entrance passage.
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Ota Darvoza (West Gate)
The west gate of Khiva's Itchan Kala, built in 1828–1829 under Allakuli Khan and the main way into the walled town, between the Kunya Ark and the Muhammad Amin Khan madrasa.
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Tosh Darvoza (South Gate of Itchan Kala)
The southern gate of Khiva's walled inner town, begun in the 18th century and rebuilt with towers in the 1830s–1840s under Allakuli Khan.
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Bogcha Darvoza (North Gate)
The nineteenth-century north gate of Khiva's walled Itchan Kala, a domed passage flanked by towers with rooms for guards and customs officers.
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Sayid Allauddin Mausoleum
One of the oldest buildings in Khiva's Itchan Kala: the fourteenth-century domed tomb of the Sufi sheikh Sayid Allauddin, with a rare glazed majolica gravestone.
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Said Niyaz Shalikarbay Mosque
A nine-domed Friday mosque with a small madrasa and minaret, completed in 1842 just outside the Palvan Gate of Itchan Kala in Khiva.
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Anusha Khan Bathhouse
A 17th-century public bathhouse in Khiva's Itchan Kala, built by Abulghazi Khan in honour of his son Anusha's victory, the oldest of its kind in the city.
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Sherghazi Khan Madrasa
Madrasa of 1719–1726 inside Khiva's Ichan Kala, at the approach to the Pahlavon Mahmud mausoleum; it had 55 student cells.
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Allakuli Khan Caravanserai and Tim
Caravanserai of 1832–1833 and a domed covered market built by Allakuli Khan beside the Palvan gate of Khiva's Itchan Kala, still lined with shops.
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Nurullabai Palace
The last palace of the Khiva khans, in the outer town, where local carved wood and tiles meet European stoves, chandeliers and mirrors.
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Dishan Kala
The outer town of Khiva, once enclosed by a long earthen wall built in the 1840s; stretches of it survive among houses and gardens.
