Cognitive tours in Bukhara.

“Almost all the historical, architectural and cultural monuments of human civilization, including the wonders of the world, were built by slaves”

Vladimir Borisov.

City break in Bukhara.

This Madrasah is located in historical residential area of Bukhara - Khauz-i-nau (New Pond). Construction of the madrasah, which wears a famous name Juibariy Kalon (Great Juibar),  in Tadjik - Madrasayi Djuibor, according to a legend, was sponsored by Oi-posho-bibi - a blind (odjis) daughter of Djuibar ishan Khoja Sa'ad, nicknamed Khoja Kalon (Great Khoja).
But intact waqf title deed (a waqf - Arabic:وقف - is an inalienable religious endowment in Islam, typically devoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes.
It is conceptually similar to the common law trust) specifies that Oi-posho-bibi devoted a plot of land only; furthermore she was in actual fact a granddaughter ofGreat Khoja.
Her father was Abdurahim-khodja.
The old name of this residential area is also  cleared up due to the same waqf document, which identifies the area as Abd al-Aziz-khan quarter (Abd al-Aziz-khan I - the khan of Shaibanid dynasty).
In front of the Madrasah there is a big khauz - Khauz-i-nau (New Pond). This khauz had an ill fame. They told, that it urges people to commit suicide (bong mesanad - "call"). Therefore when there was found a drowned man, they sacrificed a lamb at an edge of the pond and then cooked a sacrificial food - hudoi.
The pond was so renowned that its name was transferred to the city area. Mosque across the street at that time had a name Abdulla-khan Mosque. It is the ancient domical building. Construction of this Mosque is ascribed to Abdulla-khan's mother.
The Mosque has served for the five daily prayers (masjid-y panchvakty), as well as for"collective" prayers on Fridays (masjid-y jamihony). Buildings of the Mosque was subjected to numerous reconstructions during a time, and this religious complex opposite the Djuibory Kalon Madrasah had been given the name - Valida-i Abd al-Aziz-khan (Voliday Abdullazizkhan Madrasah), which also carries us away to the past, when this area bore the name of this great man.

Authority and photos:
Dmitriy Page. The Guide to Bukhara. History and sights. http://www.buxara.org