Samarkand Tilla Kari Madresa 1646-1660 - History of Islamic Architecture (sitios de interés)
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Samarkand, Uzbekistan Registran Tilla Kari Madresa 1646-1660 Shaybanid
The Tilla Kari madrasa was commissioned a decade after the adjacent Shir Dor madrasa (1619-1636) by the same patron, Shaybanid feudal general, Alchin Yalantush Bahadur between 1646-60. Once part of the complex built by Timur's wife, Tuman-Aka in the fourteenth century, the site had housed the Mirzoi caravan sarai. Built originally as a theological seminary, the Tilla Kari madrasa with its large prayer hall became Samarkand's congregational mosque after the collapse of the Bibi Khanum and the dismantling of Alikeh Kukeltash Mosques. The medresa was extensively restored in Soviet times before 1990 including the chamber underneath the dome. Photos Rolf Gross 1977 and 1989
The tiled entry ivan.
Restored interior tromp l'oeil painting of the non-spherical dome.