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 Sayfiddin’s Caravanserai    Today was the second day of practise and we went to the Sayfiddin's Karavanserai. Actually it was my first visit to this place. So I learned many interesting information.  One of specialized places  in Bukhara is Sayfiddin’s Caravanserai , built in the XIX century. Caravanserais served as a kind of parking and a shelter for wandering merchants, a place for rest and lodging, the likeness of a modern hotel or motel. Inside, travelers could store their goods in special storage rooms, feed animals in designated pens, have a snack in a teahouse or take a bath. Another special place in a caravanserai was the exchange money point. Sayfiddin’s Caravanserai was considered a state-run and was a place of shelter mainly of rich merchants (bais) engaged in trade in gold, pearls, diamonds and other precious metals. According to that, we can say that in this caravanserai there was a good turnover, which reached about 5,000 rubles a day. Currently, ...

  Today we started our first practise. So our destination was Nugay caravanserai. Among a great deal of sights, which decorate beautiful Bukhara  is  Nugay caravanserai in particular. This unique construction was founded in XVI century, when Muhammed Rakhimbiy Khan ruled here.     Nugay, which is currently one of the most famous historical places in Bukhara, is located in the very heart of the old town. It stands near to the trade dome of Toki-Sarrafon and the House of Bukhara merchant.     At those times building of caravanserais was an ordinary thing, and their meaning for single travelers and the whole caravans was really considerable. Under the canopy of trees, growing here, tired travelers satisfied hunger and thirst, and numerous rooms of the caravanserais were giving shelter and helpful rest. In caravanserais - ancient prototype of modern hotels - sometimes there was no tableware or bedding. Travelers had to br...

   Today  we had a tour to the museum of Imam Al Bukhari. I was so excited because I had never been there before. The museum is located in a modern building, designed by architect Zoirsho Klichev Bukhara. The museum was opened in 2001 and its exposition devoted to the life and work of the brilliant researcher Hadith, luminary of theology of Islam - Imam Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari. The main difficulty of the philosopher and theologian was his work "Al - Jami al-Sahih". In this book, which is considered holy in Islam after the Koran, contains wise sayings and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. To create a book scientist studied more than 600 thousand hadith. In the Muslim world, the scientist known as "Amirul - Mu'minin fil-hadith", which translates as "The Sultan of the Faithful in the science of Hadith." Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil al-Bukhari al-Juʿfi was born after the Jumu'ah prayer on Friday, 21 July 810 (13 Shawwal 194 AH) in the city of Bukhara in ...

Today the destination was Chashma Ayub museum This monument refers to 1380 and devoted legendary prophet Ayub. It is a religious building includes a mausoleum and a sacred spring. Currently, it houses the Museum of the holy water. This unique sightseeing of Bukhara enclosed in a rectangle walls, over which looms a dome with different silhouettes. The interiors are spectacular ganch lampshades with growing rows of stalactites, creating a transition of stalactite domes. It is located on the way out of the Ismail Samani park. It was repeatedly rebuilt during the fourteenth and took the form of an elongated prism topped domes over the premises of various sizes and shapes. Sharp, memorable silhouette gives it raised on a cylindrical drum with a conical double dome marking a main room with a well - source. The monument is a rectangular building complex consisting of 4 rooms, a suite arranged from west to east. Premises built at different times. The oldest of them is blocked high conical dome...

 Today we went tothe Kukeldash Madrasah and within the construction there was a museum cell of Sadriddin Ayni An outstanding local writer named Sadriddin Ayni lived near Kukeldash Madrasah in the late 19 th  and early 20 th  centuries. He died in 1954, leaving a creative legacy in his void. In memory of this great author, the northern rooms of Kukeldash Madrasah were converted into a memorial museum in which Sadriddin Ayni's personal belongings and manuscripts are on display. In Bukhara training in madrasah was profitable business: students of madrasah received a free hudzhra and to its owner the grant therefore some students sold the rooms to the third parties was given. For example, the hudzhra in madrasah Kukeldash in the middle of the 19th century cost 100-120 tillya and brought annually 5 tillya incom The northern part of the building houses his memorial museum now. It shows his belongings and some of the manuscripts.

  Tim of ABDULAZIZ-KHAN    Built in 1652, a few centuries later than Ulugh-Beg Madrasah (built in 1417),  Abdulaziz-Khan Madrasah , which stands across from it, is an integral part of Bukhara’s most outstanding architectural ensemble.  Abdulaziz-Khan Madrasah  marks the remarkable progress of medieval Central Asian architecture; it shows us how amazingly high the skills of Central Asian architects, builders and artists were at the time. Abdulaziz-Khan Madrasah  is often compared with  Ulugh-Beg Madrasah , since they are a duet of completely different structures of different times.  Ulugh-Beg Madrasah , built during the reign of the  Timurid  dynasty, is moderate in size and decoration, while its counterpart is grand and ornate. The pishtaq portal of the madrasah is amazingly high and splendidly decorated. The iwan gateway has many facets and ornamental stalactites. While the iwan of Ulugh-Beg Madrasah is plain and has inscribed cita...

Today our practise was held in one of the most historical and beautiful part of the Bukhara, In Nadir DivanBegi Madrash Nadir Divan-Beghi Architectural Ensemble  consists of a madrasah, a  khanaka  Sufi hospice and monastery, and a  hauz  pond. The ensemble was constructed by order of the vizier  Nadir Divan-Beghi  who served for  Imam Quli-Khan , one of the most powerful rulers of  Ashtarkhanid  dynasty. Nadir Divan-Beghi Madrasah  was built in 1622. It is located in the eastern part of the  Lyab-i Hauz Square . The vizier had initially planned and constructed the building as a caravanserai but  Imam Quli-Khan  unexpectedly called it a  madrasah  at the opening ceremony. That was why they had to build on the portal, façade side towers, loggias, and the second floor with  hujra  cells for students to stay in. The main feature of the madrasah is its absence of a classroom; they just did not build it...