Event - 1990-05-01

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)