Gaukushon

Gaukushon

Gaukushon is in the distant past a large trading area of ​​Bukhara, earlier, on the site of which the slaughterhouse was located. Later, Khoja-Gaukushon is one of the largest ensembles in the city center. Built in the XVI century. The complex includes a large madrassah and a cathedral mosque with a tall and wide minaret in diameter, which can only be rivaled by the Kalyan minaret of the 12th century.

Madrassah “Khoja Kalon” was built in 1570 by the means of the Djuibar sheikh Khoja Sad, nicknamed “Khoja Kalon” (great Khodja), which was reflected in the name of the mosque, and the whole complex as a whole. The madrassah has an unusual trapezoid shape, this is because it was built at a fork in the road, and it had to logically fit into the urban landscape, which, however, did not affect the scheme of courtyard buildings. To the north of the madrassah, in 1598 a cathedral mosque (Masjid-i-Jami), called “Khoja Mosque”, and then a minaret was built.