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Sayid Alauddin Mausoleum

Khiva


This small mausoleum dates to 1310 when Khiva was under the Golden Horde of the Mongol empire. You might find people praying in front of the 19th-century blue-tiled sarcophagus. Remove your shoes to see displays highlighting similar tombs over the border in Konye Urgench.


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