Registan, Samarkand

Sacred Place

Registan Square

Place type
Sacred Place
Elevation
715 m

Field notes

The field account

Place Registan, which has existed for more than 6 centuries. Some of the buildings that are in the square have been kept here in their original form from the time they were built. Special attention deserves a complex of three medersas - schools built in the Middle Ages, lined with mosaics in the traditional national style. The square itself was paved with baked bricks at the end of the 19th century.

Map margin

Where it sits

Visual field notes

A closer look