Getting There
Take buses 14, 33, or 66. From Tashkent’s South Station, hop the daily train to Kokand (part of the Tashkent-Andijan route). Taxis like Premier, Arava, and Real shuttle visitors around the city.
What to Expect
Miyon Hazrat Madrasah is a compound three-yard complex: two courtyards are located along the east-west axis, the third adjoins them from the south. The main entrance to the madrasah – on the western side of the southern courtyard – is marked with a portal-domed darvozakhona with wooden gates decorated with carved ornaments by the local craftsman Iskander Khoja. Residential buildings are tightly adjacent to the madrasah from all sides.
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History
Along the southern courtyard perimeter (32 X 26 m), residential chambers were built, only in the southern part was a multi-column square mosque in plan with a flat beamed ceiling. Here in the southeast corner, a small minaret has been preserved.
The rest of the courtyards – the eastern (35X20 m) and western (23X11 m) – also surround the khujras. In the eastern part of the madrasah, an aivan was erected (now lost), and in the western part, a study room was built. Here you can observe various structural types of floors: vaults, domes and flat beams.
The facades of the madrasah with exposed baked brickwork are decorated with a rhythmic row of lancet shallow niches. The interiors are plastered with ganch.