{"id":48138,"date":"2025-12-08T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48138"},"modified":"2025-12-07T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:00:15","slug":"the-koukeldash-madrasa-in-tashkent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-koukeldash-madrasa-in-tashkent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Koukeldash Madrasa in Tashkent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The inner courtyard of the Kukeldash Madrasah in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tashkent\">Tashkent<\/a><\/strong> appears in a pointed arch opening. Built around 1570 during the reign of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaybanids\">Shaybanid<\/a><\/strong> Khan Dervish Khan, it owes its name to its patron, a vizier nicknamed Kukeldash \u2014 \u2018milk brother of the Khan\u2019. It is the largest madrasa in the Uzbek capital. Initially converted into a caravanserai, it became a prison during the Tsarist era and was one of the few religious buildings to remain standing after the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1966_Tashkent_earthquake\">devastating earthquake of 1966<\/a><\/strong>, which destroyed around 80% of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits : <strong>Martin Scheer<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/martin.j.sc\/?next=%2Fcharliejamstore%2Ftagged%2F&amp;locale=%E7%B2%BE%E4%BB%BFgucci%E5%93%AA%E9%87%8C%E6%9C%89%E5%8D%96%E3%80%8C%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1198099199%E3%80%8DbBYc&amp;hl=fr\">@martin.j.sc<\/a><\/strong>, Germany)<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inner courtyard of the Kukeldash Madrasah in Tashkent appears in a pointed arch opening. Built around 1570 during the reign of the Shaybanid Khan Dervish Khan, it owes its name to its patron, a vizier nicknamed Kukeldash \u2014 \u2018milk brother of the Khan\u2019. It is the largest madrasa in the Uzbek capital. Initially converted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1027,4087,2088,4002,4008,3974],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-architecture","tag-central-asia","tag-madrasa","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-tashkent","tag-uzbekistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48141,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138\/revisions\/48141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48138"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}