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 There are several buildings in out country and now that I give information about "CHORMINOR" complex.....

Chorminor was built about 1807 by the wealthy Turkmen merchant Khalif Niyazkul. It is relatively small, with a capacity of 15-20 people. Today, only a few student rooms have been preserved apart from the imposing gate. Charminar is a gateway building in Hyderabad, India, and is the city's landmark.

Chor Minor Madrasah is situated about a ten-minute walk from Lyabi-Khauz Square in Bukhara. However, it is surrounded by residential buildings and therefore somewhat hidden from the eyes of tourists.

East of the Old Town, one block north of M Ambar, is the Chor Minor, a stubby, brick-built structure with four turquoise domes. The Chor Minor (Four Minarets in Tajik) is one of the most charming and quirky buildings in Bukhara, all the more surprising because, built in 1807, it dates from a period of suffocating cultural stagnation. Photogenic little Chor Minar, in a maze of alleys between Pushkin and Hoja Nurabad, bears more relation to Indian styles than to anything Bukharan. The building, resembling an upside-down chair thrust deep into the ground, is merely the darvazakhana gatehouse of a madrassah 90 by 40 meters  built by the rich Turkmen merchant Khalif Niyazkul. If you view the building from the south you are standing in the madrassah courtyard with its former summer mosque to your left and hauz to your right.

Each of the four minarets  of madrasah has a different form. In some elements of the decoration of the minarets such images as cross, Christian fish and Buddhist praying wheels can be observed. There is a view that using this particular artistic design the creators of the madrasah aimed to reflect the realization of the four religious streams.

It is the only known building in Uzbekistan in this style, though it was possibly inspired by the Char Minar Mosque in Hyderabad, India, where its patron, the Turkmen merchant Khalif Niyazkul, is thought to have travelled.

In the eastern part of the city of Bukhara, not far from the architectural ensemble of Lyabi Khauz is a small building of the Chor-Minor Madrasah, which means "four minarets". This madrasah is also called the madrasah of Khalifa Niyazkul. Niyazkul was a wealthy Turkmen caliph who, once visiting India and seeing the Taj Mahal, wanted to build something like this in Bukhara. Thus, at the intersection of the Great Silk Road, the Chor-Minor Madrassah was built. As a result, the madrassah architecture is very different from other similar structures in the East. The date of construction of the madrasah dates back to about 1807. The madrassah includes a courtyard, built on one side by one-story hujras, a columned aivan, a summer mosque, a pool lined with stone blocks. At four corners of the mosque building there are four towers, crowned by blue domes, resembling minarets in shape, due to which the whole complex was called Chor-Minor. The decor of each minaret is individual. If you look closely, the images on the minarets reflect the religious and philosophical comprehension of the four world religions. Some elements can be treated with confidence as a Christian cross, a crescent moon and a Buddhist wheel. On the second floor and in the towers there were auxiliary rooms and, as it is believed, there was once an extensive library a crescent moon and a Buddhist wheel. On the second floor and in the towers there were auxiliary rooms and, as it is believed, there was once an extensive library a crescent moon and a Buddhist wheel. On the second floor and in the towers there were auxiliary rooms and, as it is believed, there was once an extensive library....

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