Kirk-Kiz  mausoleum

Kirk-Kiz that means «Fourty Girls» according to some folk traditions, could be connected with a legend, widely spread in Central Asia, about the girls-Amazons living in the fortress.

The question concerning a destination of this building is debatable point: a castle hotel for dervishes (khonaka), caravan-saray, palace. Kirk-Kiz is located outside of the medieval girls fortress of Termez in the countryside which in the last century was called Shahri-

Saman that obviously correlates with the dynasty of Samanids. Kirk-Kiz presents an example of the monumental forms in architecture. The building has strict centralized composition. It is square in the plan (54x54 m.), and is crosswise cut along axes by arched corridors, which led to central square courtyard f115x115m.) with deep arched aivans on axes, from where one can enter numerous rooms. They settled down in two floors in four sectors of the building. A total number of premises in Kirk-Kiz reached one and half hundred: there were rectangular rooms, corridors and a big hall, probably, living room-mikhmankhana.

“Termiz oqshomi” gazetasi ma’lumotlari asosida Mastura Xamroyeva  tayyorladi