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Gur-Emir

Gur-Emir, Samarkand Uzbekistan
At the beginning of the XV century in the southwestern part of Samarkand was built by one of the most significant architectural ensembles of medieval East - Gur Emir. This majestic complex consisted of khanaka madrassas Muhammad Sultan - grandson of Amir Timur and later the tomb of Tamerlane and his descendants. 
 
Madrasah was a small yard with a typical composition and intended to teach children Samarkand nobility. Instead madrasas located khanaka with a central hall and cells - hudjras. Both buildings were built on the orders of Muhammad Sultan and had become a center of Islamic education. But the sudden death of Muhammad in 1403 led to a change in destination complex.

Dome height of 12.5 m. Diameter at the base - 15 m. However, the dome does not seem so complicated. This is due to the fact that it is divided into facets, which fades into the drum. Turquoise watering gives it a particularly elegant look on the background of bright blue sky Samarkand.

Gur-Emir, Samarkand UzbekistanComposition differs monumental mausoleum, which is determined not only large size, noi beauty bulk form.Vpechatlenie monumentality solemnity enhances decor: octagonal prism base otcherknuta marble on the bottom panel, and above it a large ornament, lined with glazed tiles on the background of brick deified; huge, almost three-meter inscription encircling the drum; harnesses lined with blue tiles of the dome.

For the interior of the mausoleum is also characterized by monumentality, slender proportions. Interior height of 23 m., The length of the walls of the quadrangle - 10 m. Ratio of length, height of the walls and the entire height of the room 1x1, 1h2h3. In order to increase the space, builders put niche, which gave the interior a cruciform plan. The decoration of the mausoleum reflected typical for foreign XIV - XV centuries. compositional techniques, continuous decorative coating, saturation and color patterns, luxury. Clearly limited inscription stripes have their ornamental composition; panel, the plane of the wall, tier Tromp, inner dome, the principle of placing decor inherent architecture of Central Asia, the period under review.

In June 1941, by the decision of the Government of Uzbekistan studies were conducted by scientists of the crypt opening Gur Emir. Autopsies have shown that buried in the mausoleum really Temur, Ulugbek, Shahrukh, Miranshah and Mohammed Sultan. Anthropologist - restorer Gerasimov recreated from skulls sculpted portraits of the Timurids.

Gur-Emir, Samarkand Uzbekistan
The remains of Timur and Sultan Muhammad were in wooden coffins, all the other burials directly in the sarcophagi. Temur coffin made ​​of wood arch. A rite of burial used the method of embalming. Burial Ulugbek testifies that he was killed and buried as a martyr in the clothes in which his death has found that fully complies with the requirements of Shariah. "..Kazhdy Floats to his sentence," - a string of notes the inscription on the tombstone of a scientist. 
Greatness and ease of architectural lines and shapes, wealth multicolored mosaic, monumental and harmony of proportions, painted interior decorative coating made ​​Gur Emir mausoleum unique monument of Central Asian architecture.

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