Sights Of Khiva
The legend of the founding of the city tells that the city grew around the Heyvak well, from which water had an amazing taste, and the well was dug by order of Shem, the son of the biblical Noah. In Ichan-Kala (the inner city of Khiva), today you can see this well. Khiva was one of the cities of ancient Khorezm, which was a large state located in the west of Central Asia, south of the Aral Sea.
In the Museum of applied art it is possible to get acquainted with all variety of forms of the Khorezm ceramics. In the middle of the 19th century, she endured the new blossoming. Works by the famous masters - Allakor's lips, Yusupkulol's lips, Iskander Kalantar, etc. Are presented to expositions. Products differ in an art originality both in forms, and in color scale, mainly green. In motives of painting of pottery of the master from Khwarezm use concrete subject images - jugs, knives, musical instruments, guns, etc. Khwarezm is famous for the carved tree. In the museum creativity of the national master of Uzbekistan, the woodcarver of at the Palvanov which performing were exhibited at the international exhibitions is presented.
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Palvan-Kari's minaret (19th century) constructed near the madrasah of the same name the Khorezm merchant who immortalized thus the name for descendants. Palvan-kari - one of the most monumental minarets in Dishan-Calais. Palvan-Kari's minaret is located in the city of Khiva, the center of the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan. It is in east part of the historical Region of Dishan-Kala, near a complex Seyid-Biya which includes madrasah, the mosque and a minaret.
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Minaret of Tura-Murad-Tura (1888). This tiny minaret appeared now alone, among houses opposite to Kunya-Arka, built at the mosque of the same name, which did not remain. The minaret Murad-Tura, 9 meters high, is located in the city of Khiva, the center of the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan. The minaret and the mosque near it were called in honor Murad-Tura, the brother khan Mahomed Rakhimkhana II. The minaret is near madrasah Mahomed Rakhimkhana II and a complex of the Kunya-ARC.
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Juma mosque (18th century) is located in the center Ichang-Kalа. it is constructed by the hansk dignitary Abdurrahman Mikhtar on the place consecrated with tradition: the Khivan mosque here is mentioned still by the Arab geographer Makdisi (al-Mukaddasi). The building reproduces rare type of the archaic multicolumn mosque in Central Asia. In essence, it is just wooden canopy over the area. The roof with three light wells is supported by 212 carved wooden columns; 25 of them - ancient (The X-XVI centuries). Among them four columns of the 10-11th, centuries are especially valuable. They are established how the kufichesk letters which are cut out on them testify, on order of a fakikh Abul Fadla is scarlet - Mahomed Lyaysi who probably made this generous gift of the mosque as charity.
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Minaret of Seyid-Sheliker-baya (the 30-40th of the 19th century). One of the oldest in Khiva a minaret of an architectural complex of Seyid-Sheliker-baya, behind gate of Palvan-Darwaz enters a chain of the verticals following on the way to the East from Ichang-kaly. The complex includes several monuments which adjoined to each other: the chetyrekhstolpny nine-dome mosque and a half of madrasah between which there is very harmonious minaret with a conic trunk (its height - 24 m, diameter of the basis - 4 m)..
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The memorial Palvan Mahmoud. Large-scale an architectural complex of the mausoleum Palvan (Pakhlavan) - Mahmoud settles down in the central part of the internal city of Ichang-Kala. Almost from any point, the turquoise dome of the mausoleum topped with a gold sphere is visible. Pakhlavan-Mahmoud's memorial - one of the best samples of medieval architecture of Central Asia, a symbol of Khiva. The memorial is built over a grave of the famous Khivan poet, philosopher and fighter Pakhlavan-Mahmoud living at 13-14 centuries and who is considered as the patron saint of the city.
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Madrasah Mahomed-Rakhim khan (end of the 19th century). The monumental monument of architecture is opposite to Kunya-Arka. It has the closed courtyard space from hudzhra before the main facade that is characteristic in Khiva and of other madrasahs (not remained courtyard before madrasah Mahomed-Amin khan, Amir tour are restored now). The madrasah yard Mahomed-Rakhim khan - two-storeyed, and a lobby from nine compartments - the most branched among all known Central Asian madrasahs. The sizes of this large monument - 62,4 x 49,7m, the yard-29 x 28,3 m.
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Madrasah Mahomed Amin khan (1852-1855). It has the impressive sizes (71,7 x 60 m, the yard-38 x 38 m), is constructed at the western gate Ichang-Kala. It was the richest spiritual school, which possessed extensive vakufny income and property. Here, as well as in Mu's madrasah - hammad - Rakhim khan, the convenient two-room hudzhra and loggias coming to external facades on the second floor were arranged. Nowadays here the tourist hotel "Khiva" was placed.
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Madrasah Mahomed Amin-Inaka (1785). The small madrasah was constructed opposite to the mosque Dzhuma. The form of the site influenced its planning - the madrasah is extended in the cross direction. Among rooms, there is a tomb, perhaps, the builder of the building here. Construction of madrasah Mahomed - Amin - inaka is dated the second half of the 18th century. In a pole of the southern domestic ayvan there is a burial. According to a legend, it is buried or Mahomed here - Amin - inak, or his juvenile son.
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To the east of madrasah Mahomed-Amin khan is one-story madrasah of Matniyaz - the Sofa - run. It was constructed in 1871 by the hansky minister Mahomed-Niyaz Divan-begi. The main facade turned to madrasah Mahomed-Amin khan has the high portal with a pentahedral niche decorated with a blue-white-blue Khorezm majolica.
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The madrasah of Kutlug-Murad-inaka (1804-1812) laid the foundation for ensemble of large buildings at east gate Ichang-kaly. The uncle of the Alla-sacks-khan builds it. Which was buried in it, under a floor of the central compartment of a lobby. Dates of construction are read on inscriptions of carved wooden doors. Planning of this madrasah - initial, with the correct four ayvanny scheme of the yard. Parallel to the main facade there is a suite from five halls, extreme of them - a darskhana and the mosque; averages make links of pass to the yard of the mion-shed. In the yard the well covered by a dome - kuduk, Hiv supplying with water all population is arranged her.
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