Ulug'bek Madrasa (Buxoro)

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Ulugbek Madrasa

The Ulugʻbek Madrasa is a madrasa in the Uzbek city ​​of Buxoro .

location

The madrasa is located in the historic center of Buxoro, about 20 meters east of the Toqi Zargaron domed bazaar and about 100 meters east of the Poi Kalon building complex north of Xoja Nurorobod Street. Opposite it to the south on the other side of the street, according to the Kosch principle , is the Abdulaziz Khan Madrasa , which is about 250 years younger .

history

The Ulug'bek Madrasa was built at the beginning of the 15th century under the Timurid Khan Ulugh Beg by the architect Ismail Ibn Tahir and completed in 1417 . This makes it 3 years older than the madrasa of the same name on the Registan in Samarqand and thus the oldest preserved madrasa in Central Asia .

description

The Ulug'bek Madrasa is about 53 meters long and about 42 meters wide. The main facade has a central Pishtak , which takes up about a third of the width of the facade. In contrast to the later madrasas of Buxoro, the iwan contained therein extends almost over the entire height of the Pishtak, so that its tympanum is broken in the middle. Above the portal is the inscription: "Striving for knowledge - that is the duty of all Muslims: of every man and every woman."

On both sides of the Pischtak there are three axes of two-storey pointed arch arcades with entrances to the students' living cells. A narrow zone with four barred windows on top of each other and a three-quarter-round corner tower that ends with the upper edge of the building close off the facade from the outside.

Behind the entrance is a high classroom on one side and a winter mosque on the other , both of which are vaulted with a dome . The inner courtyard is square with a side length of 22 meters. It is enclosed by two-storey pointed arch arcades with entrances to the students' living quarters and follows the two-iwan scheme: on the entrance side in the south and the opposite north side of the madrasa, two pishtaks with iwans face each other.

  • Main facade

  • Facade details

  • Cell entrance

  • patio

  • Muquarna

literature

  • Klaus Pander: Medrese Ulughbek . In: Central Asia . 5th updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag , 2004, ISBN 3-7701-3680-2 , chapter Bukhara, the noble , p. 159 f . (DuMont art travel guide).
  • Bradley Mayhew, Greg Bloom, John Noble, Dean Starnes: Taki-Zargaron Area . In: Central Asia . 5th edition. Lonely Planet , 2010, ISBN 978-1-74179-148-8 , chapter Bukhara , p. 259 .

Web links

Commons : Ulugh Beg madrasa (Bukhara)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pander: Zentralasien , 2004, p. 159
  2. ↑ Mayhew: Central Asia , 2010, p. 259
  3. ^ Pander: Zentralasien , 2004, p. 160

Coordinates: 39 ° 46 '36.4 "  N , 64 ° 25' 2.7"  E