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Chor-Minor ('Four Minarets') is Bukhara's most whimsical landmark — a small, fairytale-like gatehouse crowned by four sky-blue domed towers. Hidden in a residential neighborhood away from the main tourist axis, it rewards those who seek it out.
Chor-Minor was built in 1807 by Khalif Niyaz-kul, a wealthy Turkmen merchant, as the gatehouse to a (now-destroyed) madrasa. The name is somewhat misleading — the four towers are not actually minarets but decorative chimneys and watchtowers. The structure was restored in the early 2000s.