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Мавзолей Джахонгира

Dzhakhongir mausoleum (1376 - 1379). The mausoleum towers in a southeast part of the city. It is built for the twenty-two-year-old beloved eldest son Temur who suddenly died in Samarkand - Jehangir. Temur fell into such grief that "his heart was closed for compassion of 30 years". The body of the prince was transported to the city of ancestors where for it the mausoleum was built three years later. The entrance to the mausoleum is preceded by a ziyeratkhona. The construction of the mausoleum is harmonious and graceful. It represents the square prism topped with a conic dome.

The special three dome design of overlappings of the mausoleum - an internal decorative dome, over it an unloading average and external conic dome on a many-sided drum is remarkable. This design is traditional for architecture of Khwarezm from where architects and masters - they were taken out to Transoxiana and built the mausoleum. In its decor, ornamental calculations by a glazed brick with mayolikovy and mosaic inserts are used. Jehangir's mausoleum adjoined nowadays destroyed dynastic tomb which building according to the historian Sherefetdin Ali-Iyezdi was "extremely high".