Toqi Telpak Furushon Bazaar Bukhara, Uzbekistan
A little to the north from Toki-Sarrofon there located the large Telpak Furushon Trading Dome. This is a massive complex having a hexagonal orientation. Under its spherical dome there concentrate shops selling knives, jewelries, music instruments and various remembrances.
Next to it there is a medieval blacksmith shop, where one can watch a process of manufacturing knives and other tools. Once the shops were selling a book, that is why the trading dome was called as Kitab-Furushon («kitab» is translated from Uzbek as “book”). Step by step the place of the bookselling was occupied by shops trading headwear and later selling of caps in its turn gave place to souvenir products made by the local craftsmen.
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