Attractions

‘‘Chorsu’’ Bazaar

"Chorsu" Bazaar is one of the largest bazaars in Uzbekistan and Central Asia, located in "Eski shahar", the old part of Tashkent, on Navoi Street in the Almazar district. "Chorsu" Bazaar was known in the Middle Ages and was of great importance on the Great Silk Road Route. In the central part of the bazaar ceiling covered with ornaments is a monumental domed structure with a diameter of 300-350 meters - a winter three-tier bazaar building with an elevator system. On the lower tier are located basement halls with numerous auxiliary rooms. Merchandise stalls are located on the middle and upper floors. The Bazaar shopping rows are divided according to the types of goods sold in them: vegetables, fruits, nuts, oriental sweets, spices, cereals. There are separate pavilions for clothing and housewares.

Kukeldash Madrasah

The largest of the 23 madrasahs of Old Tashkent, it was built no later than 1569 by Minister of the Tashkent Sheibanid sultans Barak Khan and Dervish Khan, who bore the nickname "Kukeldash". The madrasah was built on the hill of the former Binket shahristan (inner city), on the remains of the southern fortress wall rampart. Its 15.7 m high main portal leads to the courtyard bounded by two-story dormitories in the form of cells - hujrs. Each cell consists of a room and an entrance niche - an aivan. Two or three students occupied one room. From its towers (guldasta) at the corners of the main portal, muezzins, or azanchi, call the faithful to worship (prayer).

Mustakillik Square

The central square of Tashkent, where festive events and military parades are held on the days of solemn events and public holidays. Administrative buildings of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Senate are located on this square. The entrance to Mustakillik Square is decorated with the «Ezgulik» (Good and Noble Aspirations) arch, over which storks soar upwards. The Monument of Independence and the Monument to the Happy Mother, which were made by sculptors Ilkhom and Kamol Jabbarovs. Also on the square is a memorial - Memory and Honor Square dedicated to those who did not return from the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War. Their names are inscribed in golden letters in the "Book of Memory", which is found here. The memorial represents the figure of a Grieving Mother bowing at the eternal flame who did not wait for her children to return from the war fronts.