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Madrasah and minaret Palvan-kari

Madrasah and minaret were built in 1905 by Khiva merchant Palvan Kari on the basis of new building traditions, which have endured the influence of Europen architecture. Slim low minaret in the form of a truncated cone adjacent to the front of the building of madrasah in the northeast, with madrasah constitute a single complex. This building is one of the impressive old buildings on the territory of Dishan Qala. The appearance of the madrasah and minaret is inextricably linked with a string of madrasahs, minarets and especially, Ichan Kala, strung from west to east. The height of the minaret Palvan Kari is 21 meters.

Abdalbaba Complex

This architectural complex rises in the eastern part of Dishan Qala, in the area between the gate Palvan darvaza Ichon-Qala and gates Khazarasp-Darvaza (Coy Darvaza ). Dishan Qala along the road connects them. It is small in size and is located in front of the cemetery of Abdalbaba. In the old buildings next to the complex there was the slave market. The complex consists of a small mausoleum itself Abdalbaba (Pahlawan Ahmed Zemdzhai) with a low portal, unadorned, the territory of the cemetery Abdalbaba is quite spacious with a small neighborhood mosque minaret, built in the XIX century, and the body of pond Abdalbaba. Minaret is a jewel of the complex, despite its small size, it looks more attractive, its thick trunk is dramatically thinned to the top. Especially decorated with patterned minaret "Sharaf" on the top. The height of minarets is 10 meters, diameter of the base is 3.2 meters.

Complex Tort Shavvaz baba

Complex Tort Shavvaz baba (or rather Tort Shakhboz - that means four falcon, Daredevil) is located in the northeastern part of the city of Khiva, in the territory of Mevastan Dishan Qala mahalla. The complex consists of several madrassas, mausoleum, mosque with minaret, dome, underground reservoir (sardoba, in dialect "teyi zamin") Sakia khanum, ornamental lake and a number of tombs. At the time, the complex was called Tort architectural Shakhboz baba by the name of the mausoleum, which is located a little away from the complex to the southwest under a spreading tree gudzhum (elm), on the territory of the ancient cemetery. The building of the mausoleum is now preserved. Its location is noted only in the form of an old tree. Here are the names Udaltsov (Shahbozs-sokols), the number of which, after the accession to the name Isfandiyarhana I became the four:

Qutb awliya (saints pole) - Hasankuli Azizan.
Qazi Muhammad Azizan.
Jan Muhammad Azizan.
Isfandiyarhan Ibn Arabi Muhammedhan.

Isfandiyarhan I Muhammedkhan son of Arab Muhammedhan ruled in Khorezm (1623 - 1642 years) for 19 years. He had two sons named Yushan and Ashraf and one daughter. At the direction of the new Khan of Bukhara Nadir Mohammed's daughter of Isfandiyarkhan I and his two sons were relocated (probably after the death of Khan) in the city of Karshi. Isfandiyarhan I was smart and just king (padishah). After his death he was buried in the tomb, located in a building he built madrassas Isfandiyarhana I (seventeenth century), which is part of Tort Shavvaz. In ancient times it housed a large graveyard.

In the quadrangular marble, when it is installed on the headstone Isfandiyarkhan very, beautiful floral patterns and inscriptions were carved in the style Suls in Arabic and Persian languages. On one side of the tombstone it is written the name of Khan "Noor Mohammad Sultan Isfandiyarkhan", and on the other side in the Arabic language it is written the date of death. In the remaining two sides of the poems it is written in Farsi. Currently, the headstone is on display in the museum "History of Khiva Khanate" acting in madrasah of Muhammad Rahimkhan II Feruza.

The area around the mausoleum Tort Shavvaz (Shakhboz) gradually expanded over the centuries, and by the middle of the nineteenth century there was formed a large architectural complex. The base of a small minaret, which is restored in the late nineteenth century is relared to the 17th-century. Its height reaches 12 meters. The rest of the buildings in the complex is mostly constructed in the middle and the end of the XIX century. In the complex in 1996 restoration and reconstruction works were carried out.