Tilla Kari Madrasa and Mosque
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Alternative Titles
Tillya Kari Madrasa
Tilia Kari Madrasa
Tilla Kar Madrasa
Date
1641-1660Description
The Tilla Kari madrasa was commissioned a decade after the adjacent Shir Dar madrasa (1619-1636) by the same patron, Shaybanid feudal general, Alchin Yalantush Bahadur between 1646-60. Once part of the complex built by Timur's wife, Tuman-Aka in the fourteenth century, the site had housed the Mirzoi caravan sarai. Built originally as a theological seminary, this madrasa with its large prayer hall soon became Samarkand's congregational mosque with the collapse of the Bibi Khanum Mosque (b. 1399) and the dismantling of Alikeh Kukeltash Mosque (1439-40).
Source: Archnet exterior, view of courtyard arch detail, 2009
Type of Work
Mosque; MadrasaSubject
Mosques, Madrasahs, Islamic religious education, Architecture, Islamic--Asia, Central, Architecture, Islamic --Uzbekistan
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