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The Kokildor-Ota is mentioned by researchers for its architecture and unusual planning, as a khanaka mausoleum of the XVI c. worthy of note. It is thought that the name of the saint buried witnesses about his participation in the rite of cutting the tuft of hair of some believers who gave a vow to the tuft of hair till the time when some definite events took place in their life.
This was portal-domed multi-chambered construction frontal composition with a brick wall. The idea of building a three-stage frontal, open facade, which was used in the complex of Sultan- Saodat, was repeated here too. Its plan was symmetrical by composition: There was placed a deep terrace with a main entrance and large domed hall in the central axis. On their sides, almost parallel, were placed two rooms across the corridor in a mirror composition. Thus, the rectangular entrance led to a central hall and lateral entrances to the joined rooms and corridors that were laterally to them. The decorated apertures of ganch molding built on the complicated grid of multi-angles, thyroid sails and are remarkable.
The monumental portal of the building was more characteristic of the XV c., that is to say, to the Temurid epoch, than to the architecture of Mawarannahr in the XVI c. In the interior hall gravestones; the largest one belonged to Kokildor- Ota. Researchers have suggested that it could have been redecorated in the epoch of Temurids, probably in the period when remodeling was done to the monumental structures in the complex of Hakim at- Termizi and Sultan Saodat. We should note that the building of Kokildor- Ota is one of the few khanaka with a frontal composition in Central Asia , and it is also one of the significant monuments in Termez. It should be admitted that the architecture of Surkhandarya, and particularly Termez, took the special place in the medieval architecture of Central Asia .
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