2025.04.20.006 BOUKHARA. Le Tchor Minor (« quatre minarets ») (1807)

            Le Tchor Minor (du persan : « quatre minarets » چار منار ), ou médersa de Khalif Niazkhoul, est un édifice du centre historique de Boukhara en Ouzbékistan qui a été construit en 1807 sur les fonds d'un riche marchand turcoman, Khalif Khoudoïd.
La médersa (ou madrassa) est construite au départ autour d'une cour, dont deux côtés sont réservés aux cellules (cinquante-neuf à l'époque) des étudiants en science coranique.
Le pavillon d'entrée qui subsiste de la médersa fait toute la particularité de l'ensemble, car il est surmonté de tours aux quatre angles dont chacune est couronnée d'une coupole turquoise et symbolise une ville : La Mecque, Ourguentch, Termez et Denaou[1]. Leur forme rappelle, bien qu'elles n'en aient pas la fonction, celle d'un minaret, d'où le nom qui a été donné à l'édifice.

The Tchor Minor (from Persian: ‘four minarets’ چار منار ), or Khalif Niazkhoul medersa, is a building in the historic centre of Bukhara in Uzbekistan that was built in 1807 with funds from a wealthy Turkoman merchant, Khalif Khoudoïd.
The medersa (or madrassa) was originally built around a courtyard, two sides of which were reserved for the cells (fifty-nine at the time) of the students of Koranic science.
The medersa's surviving entrance pavilion is what makes it so special, as it is topped by towers at each of its four corners, each crowned with a turquoise dome and symbolising a city: Mecca, Ourguentch, Termez and Denaou [1]. Although they do not have the same function, their shape is reminiscent of a minaret, hence the name given to the building.

   

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