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Shir Dar Madrasa

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Shirdar Madrasa
Shirdor Madrasa
Shir Dor Madrasa
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/51502
Description
The Shir Dar or Sher Dor madrasa was built in the seventeenth century, as a teaching institution and residential school of Islamic sciences. It forms the famed Registan Square ensemble in Samarkand, with the earlier constructed Ulugh Beg madrasa (1417-1421) and later built Tilla Kari madrasa (1646-60). The structure marks a significant continuation of the four iwan, square plan, and Iranian madrasa typology. It reinforces the Timurid emphasis on scale, and resultantly on external facades. Source: Archnet
 
oblique view, façade, 2009
 
Type of Work
Madrasa
Subject
Lions, Madrasahs, Islamic religious education, Islam -- History, Architecture, Islamic--Asia, Central, Religious architecture, Architecture, Islamic --Uzbekistan, Architecture--Asia, Central
Rights
(c) Igor Demchenko 2009
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