Chor Minor

Chor Minor (also noted as the Madrasah of Khalif Niyaz-kul) is a small historic building in the northeast lane of the Lyab-i Hauz complex in Bukhara. Its Persian name literally means "four minarets," a reference to the four distinctive towers that characterize the structure. The building is described in available sources as the surviving gatehouse for a madrasa that has otherwise been destroyed. Chor Minor is protected as a cultural heritage monument and is included within the World Heritage Site designation for the Historic Centre of Bukhara. The supplied sources do not provide detailed construction dates, builder attribution, or a comprehensive historical timeline beyond its identification as the gatehouse to the former madrasa. Reported paranormal phenomena, named entities, folkloric traditions, and explanatory theories are not present in the supplied research materials. The available documentation is descriptive and archival in nature (encyclopedic and structured data) and contains no accounts of hauntings, apparitions, sounds, or other supernatural occurrences. Likewise, the sources do not state the site's present public accessibility or visitor restrictions; thus current access status is not specified in the provided materials.