SHEIKH ANTAUR COMPLEX

This ancient necropolis has suffered multiple damage before being renovated. The complex comprises three mausoleum dating from the fifteenth century: the mausoleum of Kaldirgach Bey, built at the beginning of the xve and which is the oldest construction of Tashkent, the Younous Khan mausoleum (descendant of Gengis Khan and Babur grandfather) dates from the end of xve, and the mausoleum of Sheik Khavendi Takhoura (says: Sheik Antaour), built in the fifteenth century and rebuilt at the beginning of the nineteenth, 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 located in Samarkand. They are highly respected as Sufi masters in Central Asia.