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Samarkand is home to a small number of Bahais, who have their own official community spiritual center in the depths of a one-story residential area. The Bahais of Samarkand, like the so-called "non-traditional" Christian denominations, are multi-ethnic.
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A large Seventh-day Adventist Church, built after Uzbekistan's Independence. In addition to Orthodox, Catholic, and Armenian Christians, Samarkand has many churches and adherents of other Christian denominations, including Protestants, Seventh-day Adventists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Lutherans, and Korean Christian churches. Services of all these denominations are held mainly in Russian, as well as in Uzbek and Tajik.
The third and smallest of the three active Orthodox churches. What is interesting here is the colorful free-standing bell tower at the entrance to this church. It has a modest but beautiful interior. Like the other Orthodox churches, it is part of the Tashkent-Uzbekistan diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
The main football club in Samarkand is Dinamo Samarkand, which participates in the Uzbekistan Super League (the highest level of the country's leagues). The season runs from March to November. You can find the match schedule on the official website of the Uzbekistan PFL. Matches are played in the evening and tickets for matches are affordable. The stadium is located near the historical center of the city, and there is a so-called "Pub Street" (officialy Davlatabad Street) near the stadium, as well as the Samarkand Brewery, where you can try local (and non-local) beers and enjoy snacks. Local fans are not aggressive and are friendly to foreigners.
The main Orthodox church, although slightly smaller than the cathedral mentioned above, and since the rector of this particular church is the main Orthodox priest in Samarkand. It was built in 1903, in the Russian style, originally for the Russian Empire's rifle regiment. After the establishment of Soviet power, the church was closed in 1930 and reopened in 1998, under the current name, in honor of the Feast of the Protection of the Holy Virgin (Intercession of the Theotokos). During its construction and until its closure, it was known as the Church of the Ascension of the Lord. According to some sources, during the Soviet era, this was the only active Orthodox church in the city, apart from a small chapel inside the Bratskoe cemetery. By 1998, the church had been reopened after restoration.
Surrounded by Soviet-era apartment buildings, the park features a variety of amusement rides (including several from the Soviet era) and fast-food outlets. The prices for the rides are quite affordable for tourists from Europe or the United States. The technical condition of the rides may vary, although there are many new ones.
The main concert hall of Samarkand is located near the Dinamo Stadium, where not only singers from Uzbekistan, but also from neighboring countries (such as Tajikistan) and other countries of the former USSR (such as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), and also, for example, from Turkey perform concerts.