I · The Star & the Moon
A name written to look like the sky itself.
Sitorai Mohi Xossa — «a palace befitting the stars and the moon». Built by the Manghit dynasty as the country residence of the last emirs of Bukhara, four kilometres north of the city on the road from Samarkand, with its first stones laid under Amir Nasrulla-khan and its final shape given under Amir Abdulahad Bahodir-khan.
Three rulers, three master architects — Hoji Hafiz, Ostonqul Hafizov, Mirzo Ustomiddin Sarkor — and a generation of carvers, painters and silversmiths from Bukhara. From 1912 to 1918 the European volumes met the Eastern decorative grammar in these walls. A century on, peacocks still cross the rose gardens.
1912
Begun
30
Masters
UNESCO
Listed
“The East and the West meet at every step.”