Anush Khan bath house
The Anush Khan bath house is a bath house built in Khiva in the 17th century . It is located directly next to the Ak Mosque or the Palwan Darwaza , the east gate, in Ichan Qalʼа , the historical city center of Chiwa, and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage .
Building
The Anush Khan bathhouse is located immediately west of the Ak Mosque, the White Mosque of Chiwas. It was probably built by Anush Khan's father in honor of his son and was attached to the Ak Mosque as a waqf . The income was thus used for the mosque. The bathhouse has interesting heating, water supply and sewer systems . It was built semi-underground, similar to eastern bathhouses. The bathhouse has a vestibule , changing rooms and washrooms. The building was heated by a floor system of smoke ducts . The semi-underground location was used to keep the heat. The heat was generated in a boiler house . The bathrooms are connected by narrow, arched corridors, so that the temperature of the air, walls and floor in the next room was higher than in the previous one. The domes of the bathhouse with partially light openings are visible from the outside . The bathhouse was half destroyed by the middle of the 20th century and was then restored .
literature
- Alexey Arapov: The Historical Monuments of Uzbekistan . Tashkent Samarkand Bukhara Chiva Shahrisabz. SMI-ASIA, Tashkent 2016, ISBN 978-9943-17-075-9 , Chiva, p. 89 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 22 ′ 38 " N , 60 ° 21 ′ 42.4" E