These plans, sections and elevations of the Khodzha Akhrar shrine in Samarkand (Uzbekistan), are from the archeological part of <em>Turkestan Album</em>. The six-volume photographic survey was produced in 1871-72 under the patronage of General Konstantin P. von Kaufman, the first governor-general (1867-82) of Turkestan, as the Russian Empire’s Central Asian territories were called. The album devotes special attention to Samarkand’s Islamic architectural heritage. On the upper left is the site plan for a group of structures dedicated to the memory of the renowned 15th-century mystic Khodzha Akhrar (1403-89). The main components are the winter and summer mosques with<em> iwan</em> (vaulted hall, walled on three sides, with one end open) arches whose wooden columns rest on carved marble bases (shown here as a detail). The ensemble also included a pool and cemetery with marble sarcophagi. On the right is a plan for the nearby <em>madrasah</em>, or religious school, parts of which perhaps date back to a 15th-century mosque of Khodzha Akhrar. The madrasah proper was built in 1631 by Nadir Divan-Begi, vizier and uncle of the Bukharan ruler Iman-Quli Khan. Designed as a rectangular courtyard enclosed by a one-story cloister with cells (<em>khujras</em>) for scholars, the madrasah included a mosque and lecture halls (<em>darskhonas</em>). The main visual features of the complex are the two facades with iwan arches, shown here in elevation drawings.
<br>Architectural drawings; Islamic architecture; Madrasahs; Mosques; Projections
Bogaevskii, Nikolai V., 1843-1912
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