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Samarkand's Shia-Sunni Shrine. The mausoleum houses the tomb of the renowned theologian and saint, Khodja Said Musa ibn Said Murtaza, better known as Murad Avliya.
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An old-fashioned stone hammam near (2 km) Samarkand's Railway Station. It is popular among locals and is cheap, and the cleanliness is acceptable.
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.
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.
If you understand Russian, there is an Anton Chekhov Russian Drama Theatre in the Soviet part (West) of Samarkand, where performances are entirely in Russian. Many of the actors and actresses are ethnic Slavs (mostly Russians), so sometimes it feels like you are in some provincial theater in the backwoods of Russia. This theater also occasionally hosts performances and concerts by invited troupes and singers from other Russian-speaking theaters in Uzbekistan, as well as Russian-speaking troupes and singers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and, of course, Russia. The architecture of the theater building is also of interest to tourists.
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.