Kalta Minor
Kalta Minor is a striking tower in Ichan Qalʼа , the historic old town of Khiva . The tower is an unfinished minaret , from which the name is derived, which should mean "small minaret" or "short minaret". He stands in front of the Muhammad Amin Khan madrasah and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage .
Building
Kalta Minor is decorated with eye-catching, glazed blue ceramic tiles , majolica . It is considered a symbol of the city. Kalta Minor has a lower diameter of 14.2 meters and is 26 or 29 meters high. The planned height was between 70 and 80 meters. It was supposed to be the largest minaret in the Islamic world. Construction began in 1850. After the ruler of the Khiva Khanate , Khan Muhammad Amin , who had commissioned the building, was killed in a battle in 1855, the building was abandoned unfinished. According to a legend , the construction was canceled because the ruler of the Emirate of Bukhara should have planned the construction of an even higher minaret than Kalta Minor.
Kalta Minor has been part of the Itchan-Kala UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990 . In Khiva there are five minarets on an east-west axis, the so-called sun line, at a distance of about 200 meters. Kalta Minor is the second of the minarets from the west. To the west is the minaret of the Shah Kalandar Bobo complex, to the east the minaret of the Juma Mosque , the minaret of the Said Bei Mosque and the Palwan Kari minaret .
literature
- Alexey Arapov: The Historical Monuments of Uzbekistan . Taschenkt · Samarkand · Bukhara · Chiva · Shahrisabz. SMI-ASIA, Tashkent 2016, ISBN 978-9943-17-075-9 , Chiva, p. 92 and 105 .
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The landmark of Khiva: the Kalta Minor minaret . Published on January 11, 2016 on euronews .com. Accessed January 24, 2019.
Coordinates: 41 ° 22 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 60 ° 21 ′ 29 ″ E