Khoja Gaukushon
Bukhara
Ensemble of Khoja-Gaukushon, Bukhara
Khoja-Gaukushon (Khoja-Gaukushan Ensemble) is one of the largest ensembles in the center of the city of Bukhara.
Together with a number of other buildings in the central part of the city, it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Gaukushon - "killing bulls", in the past a large commercial area of Bukhara, on the site of which there was previously a slaughter. In the XVI century a large madrasah and a cathedral mosque were built on the square, with the Khodja Kalon minaret high and wide across, which was second only to the Kalyan XII century minaret.
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