Itinerary

1. Ruins of the Ancient Ak-Saray Palace

   • The city of Shakhrisabz is primarily associated with the Ak-Saray Palace, which was built at the end of the 14th - 15th centuries by order of Amir Temur. The palace construction in Shakhrisabz lasted more than a quarter of a century. 
   • The scale of the palace is striking in its size: only one main courtyard, which was reconstructed from the microrelief, was 120-125 m wide and 240-250 m long. The dimensions of the other courtyard and the outer perimeter of the courtyard could not be restored due to serious violations of the microrelief in the XV-XVI centuries.

2. Kok-Gumbaz Mosque

   • The largest Friday cathedral mosque in Shakhrisabz, Kok-Gumbaz, was built in the first half of the 15th century in the Dorut-Tillovat memorial complex opposite the mausoleum of Shamsiddin Kulol. The inscription on its portal says that it was erected by Ulugbek on behalf of his father, Shahrukh. 
   • The mosque is crowned with a magnificent huge dome covered with blue ceramic tiles. Hence the name of the mosque - Kok-Gumbaz, which means "Blue Dome". Around the cylindrical drum of the dome, along a blue strip with terracotta ornaments, the words are lined with white glazed tiles: "Dominance belongs to Allah, wealth belongs to Allah."

3. Mausoleums of Dorus-Saodat

   • The Dor-us Saodat complex (“Storage of Power”) was intended for the entire Temurid Dynasty and was built after the sudden death of Temur’s beloved son, Jahongir, in 1376. After his death, the body of Jahongir was transported from Samarkand to Shakhrisabz, the historical homeland of his ancestors. 
   • The buildings of the Dor-us Saodat complex were destroyed after the troops of the Sheibanid ruler Abdullakhan II entered the city in the second half of the 16th century. Of all the buildings, only the mausoleum of Jahongir and the crypt of Amir Temur have been preserved.

4. Complex Dor-ut Tilovat

   • The memorial complex Dor-ut-Tilovat (“The Place for Reading the Holy Quran”) was formed in 1370-1371 after the death of the prominent religious figure Shamsiddin Kulal, the founder of Sufism, the spiritual mentor of Emir Taragay and Temur himself, and teacher Bahauddin Naqshbandi. His tomb immediately became a place of reverence for his many followers.
   • Near the grave of Sheikh Kulal stood the building of the Dor-us-Tilovat madrasah. The remains of Emir Taragay were transferred to one of the rooms of the madrasah. 
   • During the reign of Temur, Kulal's grave was covered with marble slabs. Later, during the reign of Ulugbek, a mausoleum with a dome was built over the burial place of Shamsiddin Kulal and on the remains of a former and more modest building.