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Yunus-khan Mausoleum All About Uzbekistan
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Yunus-khan Mausoleum
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Besides
Shayhantaur ensemble on the
Navoy avenue there is a
mausoleum of Tashkent ruler
Yunus-khan (1415 – 1487). It is
situated on the territory of
Shayhantaur cemetery. It
represents T-shaped
khanaka-mausoleum. The main
south facade has portal with low
wings; on the facade, as in the
corners of cruciform hall with
north-ledge half-octagon niche,
there are two-storied hudjras.
The hall is opened with
three-sides doorways, covered
with sphero-conal dome on cross
archs; second-storied hudjras
are covered with cupolas on the
multi-row thyroid pendentives.
The outer dome hall was
reconstructed in 1970. The
windows are decorated with wood
and ganch panjara, there are
fragments of ganch girikh (a
geometrical ornament) on the
archs and mukannas-stalactites
(decorative ganch arrangement of
cupolas) in the hall. Its sizes
are 21,5x20,5, building width –
16 m, the hall – 7x7m.
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