Travel to Uzbekistan: Tashkent: Photo 1

This is the mausoleum and madrasa of Barak Khan, a descendant of Timur or Tamerlane.  It was built in the 1500s, and though outshone by similar buildings in Samarkand and Bukhara, it does show the form that was repeated as widely in Uzbekistan as the form of Catholic churches is repeated in Quebec.  The dominating element here is the pishtaq, or high projecting portal, which creates at the entrance a three-sided room, or iwan, in this case vaulted.  The terms pishtaq and iwan recur ad nauseum in the pages that follow.

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