Ulugh Beg Observatory

The Ulugh Beg Observatory is an observatory in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Built within the 1420s with the aid of the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg, it is taken into consideration by scholars to have been one of the greatest observatories within the Islamic international. Some of the well-known Islamic astronomers who labored on the observatory consist of Al-Kashi, Ali Qushji, and Ulugh Beg himself. The observatory was destroyed in 1449 and rediscovered in 1908.

In 1420, the first rate astronomer Ulugh Beg built a madrasah in Samarkand, named the Ulugh Beg Madrassah. It became an crucial center for astronomical take a look at and best invited pupils to take a look at on the university whom he in his opinion accepted of and revered academically and at its height had between 60 and 70 astronomers running there.

In 1424, he started building the observatory to aid the astronomical observe at the madrasah and it turned into finished 5 years later in 1429. Beg assigned his assistant and pupil Ali Qushji to take price of the Ulugh Beg Observatory which become called Samarkand Observatory at that time. He worked there until Ulugh Beg changed into assassinated. You can come to visit this place with your loved ones.