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Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis Building
Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis Building

The building is easily recognizable due to its monumental architecture. It was constructed in 1997 from glass and concrete and clad with valuable types of marble.

The project was developed by architect Valeriy Akopdzhanyan: his team studied parliament buildings of various countries and applied traditional compositional techniques of Eastern architecture. The aivans (covered verandas) with canopies on 36 columns, 18 meters high — usually located inside buildings — are here brought outside. This emphasizes the solemn character of the building and visually gives it lightness.

The building is shaped as a cube with a side length of 86 meters.

The 32-meter-high session hall is designed for 350 deputies; the second tier provides seating for journalists and diplomats.

The white cube with dark glazing is crowned by a turquoise dome with a diameter of 35 meters and a height of 11.5 meters.

Adjacent to the building are the “Milliy Bog” park with the Alley of Writers and the Abulkasim madrasah with workshops of folk craftsmen.

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