Taq-i Telpaq Furushon

At Taq-i Telpaq Furushon it was possible to purchase luxurious headgears: skull-caps embroidered with gold-thread and beads, fur-hats, and turbans skillfully rolled up. Five streets at different angles reached the building. Architects solved this complex problem by making way for the street between six radially dispersing pylons carrying a low cylindrical cupola (of 14.5 meters in diameter) with dodecahedral skylight. The gallery with niches and storerooms around the hall were erected on 12 axes. Western passage of Taq-i Telpaq Furushon opens to the street Mekhtar Ambar. The first building on the right that adjoins to the wall of Taq-i Telpaq Furushon is the ancient caravanserai Kuleta 16th century. A little in front on the left, stands out the Kurpa Mosque in its unrenewed grace. Nearly at the end of this street on the right there is another unrepaired brilliant, the Madrasah of Mullo Tursunjon.

Taq-i Sarrafon Trading Dome

The shroffs (money-changers) effected their usurious and currency transactions under the shadow of Taq-i sarrafon. The baths of the sarrafon, next door with the trading dome, an indispensable item of an urban public center, were sited next to the passage. Exceptional importance was attached to the medicinal and hygienic properties of baths. As Ibn Sina in his "Canon of Medical Science" has described, good baths must have a firm building, moderate temperature, bright light, pure air, roomy and attractively painted dressing-room and pleasant water.

Taq-i Zargaron

Passing through Po-i Kalyan, the former trade highway leads us to an ancient crossroads of the main highways of medieval Shahristan where the traditional four bazaars (Chakhar suk) met and joined in a domed structure that was named Chorsu after the crossroads. According to Khafizi Tanysh, a 16th century chronicler, in 1569-70 the largest of all existing arcades in Bukhara - Taq-i Zargaron, the cupola of jewelers, was built on the site of ancient Chorsu Bukhara, that was a magnificent building in its way.