The Khoja-Gaukushan ensemble is one of the largest architectural ensembles in the center of Bukhara . Together with a number of other buildings in the central part of the city, it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List .
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The ensemble got its name by location: Gaukushon means “killing bulls” and before construction it was located on this place a large commercial area of Bukhara, and even earlier the slaughter. [one]
The ensemble includes madrasahs and a cathedral mosque with a high and wide cross-section of the Khoja Kalon minaret , which was second only to the Kalyan minaret . The Gaukushon Madrasah was built in 1570 during the reign of the Uzbek khan Abdullah Khan II and had a traditional courtyard layout. The trapezoidal shape of the building is explained by its location on a fork in the streets. The buildings on Gaukushon Square were made at the expense of the Sheikh Khuja Khadja, known as the Khoja Kalon (the Great Khoja), which was reflected in the name of the mosque and the whole complex. In 1598, a Friday mosque called the Hodge Mosque was built from the north of the madrasah. “Khoja Kalon” is buried in the family necropolis of the Juybar Sheikhs Chor-Bakr . [one]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Dmitry Page. Bukhara. Guide to architectural and historical sights. The ensemble of Khoja-Gaukushan . Date of treatment December 16, 2014.