Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Kalon Mosque

• Bukhara, Uzbekistan

• Sights › Architecture

At the foot of the Kalon Minaret, on the site of an earlier mosque destroyed by Jenghiz Khan, is the 16th-century congregational Kalon Mosque, big enough for 10,000 people. Used in Soviet times as a warehouse, it was reopened as a place of worship in 1991.
#19 of 47 things to do in Bukhara

11. Zindon

    • Bukhara, Uzbekistan

    • Sights › Museum

Behind the Ark is Zindon, the jail, now a museum. Cheerful attractions include a torture chamber and several dungeons, including the gruesome 'bug pit' where Stoddart and Conolly languished in a dark chamber filled with lice, scorpions and other vermin.

Abdul Aziz Khan Medressa

• Bukhara, Uzbekistan

• Sights › Monument

The student rooms (across from Ulugbek Medressa) at the 16th-century Abdul Aziz Khan Medressa are occupied, rather typically, by souvenir shops. This is another unrestored gem, built by its namesake to outdo the Ulugbek Medressa in size and splendour.

12. Medressas

    • Bukhara, Uzbekistan

    • Sights › Monument

Southeast of Samani Park are two massive medressas, one named for the great Shaybanid ruler Abdulla Khan, and one for his mother called Modari Khan (mother of the khan). The latter is locked, the former contains yet more crafts shops.

Museum of Art

• Bukhara, Uzbekistan

• Sights › Museum

Museum of Art has mostly 20th-century paintings by Bukharan artists, some of which can be purchased in a gallery on the ground floor. It's in the former headquarters of the Russian Central Asian Bank (1912).
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