Descripción del sitio
This marker is part of an extended History of Islamic Architecture
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Registran
Sir Dor Madresa
1619-1636
Architects Abdul Jabbar and Mohammad Abbas
Shaybanid
The madrasa was commissiond by the Shaybanid general, Alchin Yalantush Bahadur in erratic stages between 1619 and 1636. A barely readable inscription attributes construction to a certain Abdul Jabbar and decoration to Mohammad Abbas. The site had originally housed a large tim or cupola covered trading market built by Timur's female consort, Tuman-Aka in the 14th century. Timur's successor, Ulugh Beg, had this tim dismantled, to build a domed khanqah or hospice, ancillary to his madrasa. Yalantush thus replaced a part of Ulugh Beg's original ensemble, and did not initiate a new one, as is often maintained. Photos Rolf Gross 1977.
For more photos from Samarkand go to Rolf's Samarkand 1977 and 1989