SHEIK ANTAUR COMPLEX

This old necropolis has suffered numerous damage, including the construction of a neighbouring embroidery factory. The complex comprises three mausoleums dating from the th century: the mausoleum of Kaldirgach Bey, built in the beginning of the fifteenth and which is the oldest construction in Tashkent, the Yunus Khan Mausoleum (descendant of Genghis Khan and Babur grandfather) which dates back to the end of the fifteenth century, and the mausoleum of Sheikh Khavendi Takhoura (says Sheikh Antaour), built in the th century and rebuilt at the beginning of the th century, according to the original plans. Sheik Antaour and Kaldirgach Bey are ancestors of Khodja Akhrar, one of the great spiritual masters of Central Asia, whose mausoleum is in Samarkand.