Narbutabiy Madrasah. Built in 1799. Along with Kokand masters, a master from Bukhara, Muhammad Salih Usta Kasim, took part in the construction of the madrasah.
A characteristic feature of Kokand masters is monumentality. High peshtoks (facades) of the buildings and majestic entrance arches, capital domed ceilings seemed to testify to the inviolability of the khan's rule and its main support - religion. Despite the one-story building, the Narbutabiy Madrasah is distinguished by the monumentality of the solution - a high peshtok. The severity of the impression is also contributed by the blind, brick-lined wall of the facade. The absence of tiled cladding is inherent in most Kokand madrasahs, only a few of them used this type of decorative decoration. In the organization of the internal space is a closed structure, around the courtyard, along the perimeter of which are located hujras. According to the description of the specialist architect I. Azimov, "this one-story building of a symmetrical courtyard composition is a rectangle (52 x 72 m) with cylindrical towers at the corners. The square courtyard (38 x 38 m) with beveled corners is lined with vaulted residential chambers-hujras. The main entrance, highlighted by a portal, is oriented to the north. On either side of it are a mosque with a dome on intersecting arches and a cylindrical drum cut through by twelve lancet windows and a darskhana (classroom).
The building, built of burnt brick, has almost no decorative decoration.
The brickwork of the facades is exposed, the interiors shine with the whiteness of ganch plaster. The hall of the mosque with a stalactite, domed cornice and a star-shaped filling of the mihrab looks somewhat more elegant than the darskhana. The front doors are decorated with a simple geometric pattern, the interior space of which is filled with shallow carved plant ornament. The shape of the portal and the volumetric planning solution of the madrasah are reminiscent of similar monuments in Bukhara (the Kukaldash, Abdulaziz-khan, and Miri-Arab madrasahs). The Madalikhan (Muhammad Alikhan) madrasah stood out sharply in its enormity; it was a tall, two-story, square building made of baked brick with towers at the corners. About 1,000 mullahs studied in this madrasah, which had no equivalent in Tashkent or other cities. Madalikhan's madrasah was destroyed during the Soviet period.
According to the author of "Tarikh-i Turkestan", in 1861-1862 the "Hazrat-i Kalon-sohib Madrasah" was built in Kokand, to which the khanaka (cells) were added.
This book also reports that Musulmankul ordered the construction of the "Madrasa-i Oliy" in honor of Khudayar Khan on the site of the old ark, the construction of which lasted two years and was completed in 1852."3
This is also confirmed by Ishakhan Tura Ibrat, the author of the manuscript of "Tarikhi Fargon"* according to the testimony of the author of the manuscript of "Jahannam", the palace of Abdu-Karim was on the site of... the Ali (Oliy) madrasah.
According to his mother's will, Khudayar Khan ordered the construction of the "Madrasa-i Hokimoyim" in her honor on the eastern side of the Jami mosque. The construction was supervised by Mullah Tura-oglu. The construction was completed in 1869/1870. And the following year, by decree of Khudayar Khan, a ditch was led from the Syr Darya towards Shakhrikhan and the income was transferred to the waqf in favor of "Madrasa-i Khokim-oyim".