Jami Mosque minaret

Rising from the courtyard of Kokand's Friday (Jami) Mosque, this 22.5-metre brick minaret was built in the early 1820s as part of the mosque complex commissioned by Umar Khan, ruler of the Kokand Khanate, under the direction of an architect brought from Ura-Tepa who oversaw roughly 200 workers on the project. The tapering shaft is built of plain, ring-patterned brickwork without applied tilework, topped by a six-arched lantern beneath a faceted dome from which the muezzin called the faithful to prayer five times a day; a spiral staircase inside the trunk gave access to the top. It remains the dominant vertical landmark of Chorsu Square, overlooking the mosque's vast columned veranda, and is registered as an object of tangible cultural heritage of Uzbekistan.