Palace of Xudayar Khan

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The palace of Xudayar Khan in Qo'qon

The palace of Xudayar Khan is a palace in Qo'qon (Kokand), a city in the Ferghana Valley in eastern Uzbekistan .

history

The palace was built as the ruler's seat for Xudayar Khan , the penultimate Khan of the Kokand Khanate . Construction began in 1863 and was completed in 1873. It was one of the last major Islamic buildings in Uzbekistan.

Restoration work took place in 1934. The facade was restored again in the mid-1960s, and again at the end of the 2000s.

  • Restoration in 2008

description

The palace of Xudayar Khan is located in Muhimi Park, an approximately 500 × 500 meter large green area with geometrically laid out paths and water features in the center of Qo'qon.

It is a rectangular building complex with a floor area of ​​around 70 × 100 meters. Its main facade, which faces east and is around 70 meters long, is decorated in brightly colored colors with various ornaments, including geometric figures, floral patterns and arabesques. Quranic verses are written in white letters on a blue tiled background. In the middle of the facade a 40-meter-long ramp for carriages leads to one of two minarets flanking Pischtak with Ivan . An inscription above the main gate praises the "Great Seyed Mohammad Xudayar Khan". Two more minarets stand at the ends of the facade. Inside, the palace has 119 rooms and seven courtyards. Stucco decorations, tile mosaics and brightly painted wooden ceilings bear witness to the traditional folk handicrafts of the region. The Museum of Regional Studies is housed in 19 rooms and two inner courtyards of the palace with exhibits on the history of the city and the region.

  • entrance

  • Facade details

  • painted wooden ceiling

  • patio

literature

  • Klaus Pander: Palace of Kokand . In: Central Asia . 5th updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag , 2004, ISBN 3-7701-3680-2 , chapter Samarquand , p. 194 (DuMont art travel guide).
  • Bradley Mayhew, Greg Bloom, John Noble, Dean Starnes: Khan's Palace . In: Central Asia . 5th edition. Lonely Planet , 2010, ISBN 978-1-74179-148-8 , Kokand chapter , p. 233 f .

Web links

Commons : Khudayar Khan Palace  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ palace Xudayar Khan. In: structurae . Retrieved November 9, 2016 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 32 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 70 ° 56 ′ 18.2 ″  E