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Event - 1990-05-01

Posted June 3rd, 2008 by heritage
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Tuesday, 1990, May 1
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The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, in collaboration with the Union of Soviet Architects and the Union of Uzbek Architects, launched an international architectural competition for ideas on Ulugh Beg Cultural centre in Samarkand, U.S.S.R. The competition is focused on the theme of a cultural centre to be erected in the memory of Ulugh Beg, a grandson of Timur, who was a great scholar, mathematician and connoisseur. (click here)

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H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV
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The Aga Khan Trust for Culture in 1990, in collaboration with the Union of Soviet Architects and the Union of Uzbek Architects, launched an international architectural competition for ideas on the Ulugh Beg Cultural Centre in Samarkand, USSR. The project is part of a larger programme aimed at the revitalization of the historic Core of Samarkand - the location of some of the finest examples of monumental Islamic architecture in Central Asia.

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