T he annual festival "Silk and Spices", held in Bukhara, is perhaps one of the main events in the cultural life of Uzbekistan

Kalon Mosque
The building of the Kalon mosque (Masjid-i Kalon) was completed in 1514 It is equal to the scale of the building of the Bibi Khanum mosque in Samarkand. Under the arches of her going up to 12,000 people. When the same type of building - is quite different works of architectural art. The rectangular courtyard is surrounded by galleries, consisting of 288 domes. The reason they are 208 columns. The longitudinal axis of the court concludes "Maksura" - portal-domed building with a volume of cross-hall, above which rises a massive blue mosaic dome on a drum. The building has many interesting architectural finds. For example, a round hole in one of the domes. Below, you can see through it Kalon minaret base. A retreating step by step, you can count all the belts patterned masonry minaret and be rested in his eyes rotunda.
Miri Arab madrassah
Construction of the madrasa Mir-i Arab attributed by Sheikh Abdullah Yamani (ie, “from Yemen"), the spiritual mentor first Sheibanids, better known by the name Mir-Arab. Sheikh Abdullah had a great influence on Ubaydullah Khan (Sultan of Bukhara 1512-1533, Khan of Maurannahr 1533-1539), which left a significant mark in the history of Bukhara. Contemporaries drew his stern warrior. He was six times led his troops to battle in Khorasan (northeastern Iran). Was brought up in the spirit of the ruler of Sufi philosophy and the very name of 'Ubaydullah", had given him his father in honor of the famous sheikh of the XV century Ubaidulla Akhror-Khoja, the head of the famous Naqshbandi Sufi order.By the thirties of the XVI century gone are the days when the rulers erected for themselves and their relatives ceremonial tomb. The value of religion was so great that even the emperor was satisfied with the burial at the feet of his Shaykh in a room of his madrassa. Therefore, in the madrassas, the center “gurkhana” (tomb) stands a wooden tombstone Ubaidulla Khan. In his head - the tomb of Mir-Arab. Next to him was buried Muhammad Kasim - "Mudarris" (Senior Lecturer).
At the time, Mir-Arab madrassah was the only Muslim spiritual institution in the former USSR. Among its famous alumni, called the Mufti of Azerbaijan Pasha-Zadeh, a former mufti of Kazakhstan Ratbek Nysanbayuly, the head of the Russian Muslims Ravil Gaynuddin and the late Chechen President Akhmad-hadji Kadyrov, the former mufti to the events. Miri-Arab is the second largest in size (after Kukeldash) madrassa in Bukhara. It has 114 cells in the number of verses in the Koran.
AMIR-ALIM-KHAN MADRASSAh

Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan was the last emir of the Emirate of Bukhara. He was also the last direct descendant of Genghis Khan to serve as a national ruler. He was overthrown in 1920 by the Red Army under the command of Bolshevik general Mikhail Frunze. This small medersa, now used as a children's library, was built under his reign right behind the Kalon Minaret. Despite being built in the 20th century, the medersa's style is line with the traditional architecture of the surrounding buildings.Decoration is also striking for its grandeur: octagonal prism core emphasized on the bottom panel of marble, on which flaunts a large ornament, lined with glazed tiles on the background of brick deified; huge three-meter inscriptions surround the drum, harnesses lined with blue tiles of the dome.

Today Emir-Alim-Khan Madrasah is newly renovated historic building. For several years in the 50s, 60s, and then after independence in 90s mausoleum subjected the restoration work. It was supplemented with onyx panels, gilding, and painting. Ceiling, as in chrome luxury chandeliers were made by historical records.
TOQI ZARGARON
The most extensive bazaar among the bazaars of Bukhara. THIS majestic architectural masterpiece was built between 1569 and 1570 under the rule of Abdulla Khan II of the Shaibanid dynasty.‘Toqi’ is the name of the domes of the covered bazaars, which were built at the intersection of several busiest streets.‘Zargar’ is translated as ‘jeweller ‘ so that the TRoqi Zargaron dome was also called ‘ Jewller’s Trading of Bukhara’.The diameter of the central dome of toqi zargaron is 14 meters. The material used for the construction of the trading dome was ceramic bricks.