Modar-i-Khan mausoleum

The Modar-i-Khan mausoleum, whose name translates as Mother of the Khan, stands in the old cemetery quarter of Kokand and was raised in 1825 on the orders of Nodira Begim, the poet and wife of ruler Umar Khan, as a memorial to Umar Khan's mother. It follows the funerary architecture typical of the Fergana Valley: a domed burial chamber fronted by a portal, paired with a small mosque for funeral rites and enclosed by a walled courtyard holding the grave itself. Its facades carry glazed tilework in red, green, yellow and blue, reportedly the work of potters brought from Rishtan together with local ganch-carving masters. The mausoleum now forms part of a wider funerary ensemble in Kokand that also includes the Narbutabiy mosque and madrasa and the Dakhma-i-Shokhon tomb.