Things to Do in Tajikistan

Imam Bukhari Memorial Complex

St. John the Baptist Church, Samarkand

The St. John the Baptist Church (Russian: Церковь святого Иоанна Крестителя) It is the only Catholic church in the city of Samarkand, in the Asian country of Uzbekistan, where 95% are Muslims. It depends on the Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan based in Tashkent.

Bibi Khanym

The Bibi-Khanym Mosque (Uzbek: Bibi-Xonim masjidi; Persian: مسجد بی بی خانم‎; also variously spelled as Khanum, Khanom, Hanum, Hanim) is one of the most important monuments of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Shah-i-Zinda Complex

Shah-i-Zinda (Uzbek: Shohizinda; Persian: شاه زنده‎, meaning "The Living King") is a necropolis in the north-eastern part of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.The Shah-i-Zinda Ensemble includes mausoleums and other ritual buildings of 11-15th and 19th centuries.

Kuh-e Kallat

Kallat peak (Persian: کوه کلات‎) is one of the highest mountains located near Guzun village in Khwahan District in the North East of Afghanistan.

Mushketov Glacier

Ivan Vasilʹevich Mushketov (Russian: Иван Васильевич Мушкетов; 1850–1902) was a famous Russian geologist, tectonist, explorer, and geographer.Mushketov was born 9 (21 New Style) January 1850 in the Dango Cossack area of the Don region and entered Saint Petersburg University…

Dalverzin Tepe, ancient city (remains of)

Dalverzin Tepe is an ancient archaeological site located in the northern part of the region of Bactria, southern modern Uzbekistan, about 120 km north-east of Termez.It is the location of Hellenistic constructions made during the time of the Greco-Bactrians, perhaps a small fortress.

Gur-e Amir (Amir Temur Mausoleum)

The Gūr-i Amīr or Guri Amir (Uzbek: Amir Temur maqbarasi, Go'ri Amir, Persian: گورِ امیر‎) is a mausoleum of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (also known as Tamerlane) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Registan square

The Registan was the heart of the ancient city of Samarkand of the Timurid Empire, now in Uzbekistan. The name Rēgistan (ریگستان) means "sandy place" or "desert" in Persian.The Registan was a public square, where people gathered to hear royal proclamations, heralded by blasts on enormous cop…

Chorsu

Chorsu (Persian: چارسو‎, Uzbek: Chorsu and Russian: Чорсу), also called charsu, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, is a domed, hexagonal building southeast of the Registan at the intersection of the roads connecting Samarkand, Tashkent, Bukhara, and Shahrisabz.

Afrasiab and History of Samarkand Museum

Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand (Uzbek: Afrosiyob-Samarqand shahar tarixi muzeyi) is a museum located at the historical site of Afrasiyab, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world and the ancient city that was destroyed by the Mongols in the early 13th century.

Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge

The Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge is a road and rail bridge across the river Amu Darya, connecting the town of Hairatan in the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan with Termez in the Surxondaryo Region of Uzbekistan.

Tavka Kurgan

Tavka Kurgan is an ancient fortress and archaeological site near Shirabad, Uzbekistan. It is especially famous for some frescoes dated to the 5th-6th century CE, several of them located in the Archaeological Museum of Termez.

Tajik-Afghan Friendship Bridge

The Tajikistan–Afghanistan Friendship Bridge connects the two banks of Darvaz region across the Panj River (further downstream known under the name Amu Darya) separating Tajikistan and Afghanistan, at the town of Qal'ai Khumb. It was opened on 6 July 2004.

Dorut Tilavat

Dor-i-Tilavat/Dorut Tilovat/Dor al-Tilavat (House of recitation) is a madrasa in Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan.

Oxus Treasure

The Oxus treasure (Persian: گنجینه آمودریا) is a collection of about 180 surviving pieces of metalwork in gold and silver, most relatively small, and around 200 coins, from the Achaemenid Persian period which were found by the Oxus river about 1877–1880.

Ai-Khanoum

Ai-Khanoum (lit. “Lady Moon” in Uzbek) (Greek: Κυρία της Σελήνης), possibly the historical Eucratideia, was one of the primary cities and an enigma of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and of the Indo-Greek kings when they ruled both in Bactria and northwestern India, from the time of De…

Dushanbe Synagogue

The Dushanbe Synagogue (Russian: Душанбинская синагога), also known as the Bukharian Synagogue (Russian: Бухарская синагога), located in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, was constructed in the 19th century in one of the two Jewish Quarters in Dushanbe at the…

Palace of Unity

The Palace of Unity (Russian: Кохи Вахдат; Tajik: Кохи Ваҳдат/Kokhi Vahdat/کاخ وحدت), also referred to as Vahdat Palace (Russian: Дворец Единства), is a building in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

St. Nicholas Cathedral

St. Nicholas Cathedral (Russian: Свято-Николаевский собор) is a Russian Orthodox church in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Ismaili Center

The Ismaili Centre, Dushanbe (Russian: Исмаилитский центр) is one of six such centres world-wide and is an Ismaili jamatkhana. It was the fifth purpose-built Ismaili Centre, and the first in Central Asia.

Zoo

Dushanbe Zoo or Dushanbe Zoological Park (Russian: Душанбинский зоопарк; Tajik: Боғи Ҳайвоноти Душанбе) was founded in 1960 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Panj River

The Panj (Persian: رودخانه پنج‎) (; Tajik: Панҷ, پنج), traditionally known as the Ochus River and also known as Pyandzh or Pyanj (derived from its Russian name "Пяндж"), is a tributary of the Amu Darya.

Boysun

Boysun (also spelt Baysun, Bajsun or Baisun) is a town in Surxondaryo Region, Uzbekistan and capital of Boysun District. The population as of the 1989 census was 16,700; an estimate for 2012 puts the population at 26,309.

Fann Mountains

The Fann Mountains (Tajik: Кӯҳҳои Фон, Uzbek: Fon togʻlari) are part of the western Pamir-Alay mountain system in Tajikistan's Sughd Province, between the Zarafshan Range to the north and the Gissar Range to the south.

Sarazm

Sarazm is an ancient town and also a jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It dates back to the 4th millennium BC and is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The jamoat is part of the city of Panjakent in Sughd Region, and has a total population of 27,877 (2015).

Panjakent

Panjakent (Tajik: Панҷакент), or Penjikent (Russian: Пенджикент) is a city in the Sughd province of Tajikistan on the river Zeravshan, with a population of 52,500 (2020 estimate). It was once an ancient town in Sogdiana.

Gissaro-Alai open woodlands

The Gissaro-Alai open woodlands ecoregion (WWF ID:PA0808) covers the western foothills winding around two western offshoots of the Tian Shan Mountains in western Tajikistan, and parts of eastern Uzbekistan and western Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia.

Ismail Samani

Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā'īl ibn Aḥmad (Persian: ابو ابراهیم اسماعیل بن احمد سامانی‎; May 849 – 24 November 907), better known simply as Ismail Samani (اسماعیل سامانی), and also known as Isma'il ibn Ahmad (اسماعیل بن احمد), was the Samanid ami…

Shahrukhiya

Shahrukhiya is a site of ancient settlement located 88 km to the southwest of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on the right coast of Syrdarya River (40°45′59″N 68°54′05″E). It is the first large city of the Tashkent oases, situated on the Great Silk Road through Yaksart (Syrdarya).

Siypantosh Rock Paintings

The Siypantosh Rock Paintings are located throughout the southwestern portion of the Zarafshan mountains, Kashkadarya Region, Uzbekistan.The rock paintings are situated on the concave rock faces of granite-diorite outcrops.

Dashti-Jum Nature Reserve

Dashti-Jum, also spelt Dashtidjum or Dashti Djum, is a 380 km² nature reserve in eastern Khatlon Region in southwest Tajikistan.

Palace of the governor of Khulbuk

The Palace of the Governor of Khulbuk (37°46′39″N 69°33′23″E) is located in the center of village of Kurban-Shaid in the city of Vose in the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan. The palace was situated in the south-west part of the ancient town of Khisht-Tepa.

Arab-Ata Mausoleum

The Arab-Ata (lit. 'Shrine of the Arab Father') is a cubical, domed brick mausoleum built in 977-78 in the village of Tim, Samarqand Region, Uzbekistan.Built on top of a tepa, or triangular-shaped hill, in the 10th Century, the mausoleum fills an important gap in understanding the evolution of mau…

Shohimardon

Shohimardon (also Shahimardan or Shakhimardan, Russian: Шахимардан) is a small town in Fergana District of Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan.

Xonbandi

The site of Abdulkhan Bandi Dam is located in Jizzakh Region, Forish District, Uzbekistan. The dam was apparently built in the middle ages by Akhmadali Nayman atalik and served as Asian important milestone for Central an hydroengineering .This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative Li…

Shahristan

The ancient archaeological site of Bunjikat (Russian: Бунджикат Tajik: Бунҷикат), also named Shahriston, is located near the town of Bunjikat (Bundjikat, Russian: Бунджикат Tajik: Бунчикат), in the Shahristan Pass at the entrance of the Ferghana Valley, in Sughd Pro…

Kuh-e Bandaka

Kuh-e Bandaka (Pashto: کوه بندکا) or Kohe Bandaka, Koh-i Bandaka, Bandako, or incorrectly Koh-i-Bandakor) is one of the highest peaks of the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan. It is northeast of Kabul and west of Chitral.

Koh e Haj e Kushtah

Koh-e Haji Kushtah (Dari: کوه حاجی کشته‎; mountain with aromatic pines) is a mountain of the Hindu Kush Range in Afghanistan. It is in Samangan province.

Qarah Tapah

Qarah Tappeh (also Kara Tapa Kalan and Qara Tepe Kālan) is a fortified village in southern Khamyab District, Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan. It has an altitude of 248 m. (816 ft.). It was a crossroads for goods between the Andkhoy - Khamyab (town) route and the Kerki - Akcha route.Jowzjan Province

Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan

The Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan is a Roman Catholic (Latin Church) Apostolic Administration (pre-diocesan jurisdiction; originally an Independent Mission) for the Catholics of Uzbekistan (West Turkistan, Central Asia).It is exempt, i.e.