Samarqand Region

sights.uz lists 64 historic and notable places in Samarqand Region, Uzbekistan. Among them are 46 monuments, 9 eco-tourism sites and 9 museums.

Registan

Registan, officially the Registan Square (Uzbek: Registon maydoni) is a historic public square in the city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It served as the heart of the Timurid Empire…

Gur-e Amir

The Gūr-i Amīr or Guri Amir (Uzbek: Amir Temur maqbarasi, Goʻri Amir, Persian: گورِ امیر) is a mausoleum of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (also known as Tamerlane) in…

Bibi-Khanym Mosque

The Bibi-Khanym Mosque (Uzbek: Bibixonim masjidi; Persian: مسجد بی بی خانم; also variously spelled as Khanum, Khanom, Hanum, Hanim) is one of the most important monuments of…

Shah-i-Zinda

Shah-i-Zinda (from Classical Persian: شاهِ زنده, romanized: Šāh-i Zinda, lit. 'the Living King'; Uzbek: Shohizinda) is a necropolis in the north-eastern part of Samarkand,…

Ulugh Beg Madrasa

The Ulugh Beg Madrasa (Uzbek: Ulugʻbek madrasasi) is a madrasa (Islamic school) in the historic center of Samarkand, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Uzbekistan. Together with…

Afrasiyab

Afrasiyab is an ancient site in northern Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, that was occupied from c. 500 BC to 1220 AD prior to the Mongol invasion in the 13th century. The…

Sherdar Madrasa

The Sherdar Madrasa (from Classical Persian: مدرسۀ شیردار, romanized: Madrasa-yi Šērdār, lit. 'the Lion-Bearing Madrasa'; Uzbek: Sherdor madrasasi) is a 17th-century madrasa…

Tilakari Madrasa

The Tilakari Madrasa (from Classical Persian: مدرسۀ طلاکاری, romanized: Madrasa-yi Ṭilākārī, lit. 'the Madrasa of Gilding, the Gilded Madrasa'; Uzbek: Tillakori madrasasi) is a…

Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand

The Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand (Uzbek: Afrosiyob-Samarqand shahar tarixi muzeyi) is a museum located at the historical site of Afrasiyab, one of the largest archaeological…

Hazrat-Hyzr Mosque

The Hazrat Khizr Mosque is a historical monument in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (mid-19th century); associated with the name of the legendary Islamic prophet Khizr. The building was…

Arab-Ata Mausoleum

The Arab-Ata Mausoleum (Uzbek: Arabota maqbarasi, lit. 'Shrine of the Arab Father') is a cubical, domed brick mausoleum built in 977-78 in the village of Tim, Samarqand Region,…

Khodja Doniyor Mausoleum

Khoja Doniyor mausoleum is an architectural monument in Samarkand (built at the beginning of the 20th century). It is located in the east side of the Afrosiyab fortress along the…

Siyob Bazaar

Siyob Bazaar (Uzbek: Siyob bozori,Tajik: Бозори Сиёб), also called Siab Bazaar, is the largest bazaar in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The building is built in the shape of a dome,…

Al Bukhari Memorial

The Memorial Complex of Imam al-Bukhari (Persian: آرامگاه امام بخاریUzbek: Imom al-Buxoriy yodgorlik majmuasi; Arabic: قبر الامام البخاري) is an Islamic religious complex located…

Koktepe

Koktepe or Kok Tepe is an archaeological site in Uzbekistan, located around 30 kilometers north from Samarkand, in an area located at the boundary of the steppe during ancient…

Kafir-kala

Kafir-kala ("Fortress of the infidels") is an ancient fortress beside the Dargom river, 12 kilometers south of the city center of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, protecting the southern…

Ishrat-Khana Mausoleum

The Ishratkhana Mausoleum (Uzbek: Ishratxona maqbarasi) is an architectural monument-mausoleum in Samarkand, built during the reign of the Timurid ruler Abu Said (1451-1469). The…

Khodzha Abdu-Derun Mausoleum

Abdidarun Complex is an ancient shrine located on the eastern side (inside, darun means inside) of the Samarkand fortress wall. Various buildings appeared and became an…

Mausoleum Qassim-ibn-Abbas

Qusam Ibn Abbas Complex (Uzbek: Qusam ibn Abbos majmuasi) – an architectural monument in Samarkand (11th–15th centuries) as a part of Shah-i-Zinda. The complex consists of a…

Aksaray mausoleum

Oqsaroy — a architectural monument in Samarkand (15th century). The last tomb of the Timurid dynasty. As an additional tomb it was built during the reigns of Abu Said (1449–69)…

Kattakurgan Reservoir

The Kattakurgan Reservoir is a reservoir on the Zeravshan River in the Kattakurgan District, Samarkand Region, Uzbekistan. Due to its large size, it is informally known as the…

Turar joy (ilgarigi Xushkomilboy, keyinchalik ilgarigi Ayniy uyi, hozirda muzey)

The Sadriddin Ayniy house-museum is located in the city of Samarkand. This house-museum is dedicated to the life and work of the renowned Uzbek and Tajik writer, translator and…

Rukhabad Mausoleum

Ruhobod Mausoleum, Ruhobod — a legendary name, actually the tomb of the scholar saint Shaykh Burhoniddin Sogʻarjiy (Sogʻarj—an ancient town near Samarkand). In the early period…

Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum

The Bibi Khanoum mausoleum (Uzbek: Bibixonim maqbarasi) is an architectural monument in Samarkand whose construction began at the end of the 1390s and was completed at the…