Chor Minor

Hello my dears!Today I want to share some amazing facts and my fantastic experience of visiting Chor Minor.

 The Chor Minor Madrasah in Bukhara is one of the most remarkable historical monuments of the town. Located behind the Lyab-i Hauz complex, it is especially outstanding compared to the rest of the square in its unusual forms and architectural design, which accounts for its name.



 "Chor Minor" means "four minarets" in Persian. These are small angle towers with azure-blue domes surrounding the square-rectangular building. But in contrast to traditional minarets, which suggest the possibility of ascending the "muezzin" to the open platform for the convocation to prayer, in Chor Minor it is missing. The decoration is curious as well. At first glance, the towers seem identical, but on closer examination, you will see that the decoration of none of them is the same as the other.

The side part of the building consisted of residential rooms "hujras." It is assumed that the number of students in the madrasah was quite small or it was used as a dormitory for about 20 students. The second floor and three towers contained service rooms, while the fourth minaret was a depository of a rich library.



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