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Description
Property Name: Tillya Kari Madrasa
Inventory No: 998-66-6
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2007-12-12
Country (State party): Uzbekistan
Province: Samarkand
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 39° 39′ 20.22″ N
66° 58′ 31.06″ E
Historic Period: Timurid
Year of Construction: 1646-60
Style: Timurid
Original Use: Madrasa
Current Use: Museum
Architect: Unknown
Significance
The madrasa is one of the buildings enclosing Registan Square in Samarqand, the others being the Ulugh Bey madrasa and Shir Dor madrasa. It only served as a madrasa, but is also the city`s Friday mosque. In contrast to the Timurid buildings, with their tile cladding that covered the walls completely, this building displays a combination of decorative brick bonds and ornamental tile areas. It owes its The One Made of Gold to its interior furnishings.
Selection Criteria
i. to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
A large-scale restoration project held on in the square between 1967 and 1987 has concentrated on Tillya Kari madrasa.
References
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Lawton, John, Samarkand and Bukhara, Tauris Parke Books, London, 1991.
Naumkin, Vitali. Samarkand, Garnet Publishing, Reading, 1996.
Samarkand: A Museum in the Open, İzdatel’stvo Literaturi i İsku, Tashkent, 1986.
Steele, James, Architecture for a Changing World, 1992
Umniakov, I. I., Aleskerov, Y. Samarkand: a guide book, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972.
UNESCO Web Site: http://whc.unesco.org/
Archnet Web Site: http://archnet.org/
Organization of World Heritage Cities Web Site: http://www.ovpm.org/
University of Washington Web Site: http://www.washington.edu/