Shir Dar Madrasa
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Alternative Titles
Shirdar Madrasa
Shirdor Madrasa
Shir Dor Madrasa
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 exterior, view from alongside Tilla Kari Madrasa, 2009
Type of Work
MadrasaSubject
Lions, Madrasahs, Islamic religious education, Islam -- History, Architecture, Islamic--Asia, Central, Religious architecture, Architecture, Islamic --Uzbekistan, Architecture--Asia, Central
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