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345:(1899) and a portal (1919) were added to the building. The main entrance is through a wooden door decorated with carvings, which leads to a small room. The portal is arched and domed, with two corner towers topped with ribbed domes; the arch is decorated with muqarnas. On the left side of the arch, there is a charming veranda with five wooden columns and a carved ceiling, decorated with colorful patterns and skillfully made plaster carvings. The veranda leads to the khanqah, which is covered with a high dome with eight ribs and a lantern. The exterior of the dome is decorated with tiles. The portal and the minaret are decorated with carved bricks, and the portal's dome has arched windows. The building was restored in the 1990s. 289: 354: 138: 25: 373:
About 2000 people, including master-decorators from India, participated in the construction of the mausoleum. The construction was planned to be completed by September 2017, but at the last moment it was decided to open it on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Islam Karimov's birth. On January
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The present mosque was built in 1854 on the site of the ancient foundation. In 1884, the building underwent decoration and reconstruction works. In 1899, the mosque's veranda was rebuilt and a portal was added. The reconstruction was completed in 1919 by the famous Samarkand master Abduqodir bin
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On September 3, 2016, the First President of Uzbekistan Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov was buried in the territory of the “Hazrat Khizr” mosque. Soon after the burial ceremony, the Main Department for the Preservation and Use of Cultural Heritage Objects under the
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captured Samarkand, the Arabs tried to flood the city fortress by blocking the canal of Juy-i Arziz with a dam. But a large white bird fell from the sky and broke the dam. To commemorate this event, one of Qutayba's companions,
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began to develop a project for the construction of a mausoleum over the President's grave. The main difficulty in working on the project was that the Hazrat Khizr mosque was under the auspices of
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Samarqand davlat muzey-qoʻriqxonasi – SAMARQANDNING TARIXIY OBIDALARI VA MUZEYLARI BOʻYIChA EKSKURSIYA MATNLARI, 2010
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30, 2018, the mausoleum was solemnly opened and its first visitor was the current President of Uzbekistan
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Boqiy, who installed the entrance portal and the eastern minaret, and covered the portal with a dome.
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complex on a hill. In 2018, the mausoleum of the First President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
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The first mention of the mosque dates back to the time when the Arabs conquered
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Affiliation
Islam
Branch/tradition
Architect(s)
Style
Dome
Minaret
Materials
Samarkand
Khizr
mosque
mihrab
Shah-i-Zinda
Islam Karimov
mosque

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Qutayba ibn Muslim

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