Juma Mosque of Khoja Ahrar Wali

The Juma Mosque of Khoja Ahrar Wali is the basis of the Registan ensemble, located in the area of Chorsu Square. This is the only example of a courtyard-type Friday mosque in Tashkent, which existed in Central Asia during the Late Middle Ages.

The main building is a cubic volume covered by a dome with four windows in a low drum. The eastern wall facing the courtyard is pierced by a large arch. The roof of the dome is spheroconic, without decoration.

The dome is based on spheroconic sails. The curve of the arch-niches at the entrance is pointed, not Central Asian, but rather Gothic in outline. The layout of the mosque is elongated in the form of a rectangle with a large volume of the building at the end of the longitudinal east-west axis.

Opposite the old central entrance to the mosque, which was previously located on the north side, there was a modest one-story madrasah erected in 1451.