Gur-e Amir mausoleum
In the 14th century Samarqand revived a place of the southern suburb. Amir Temur (1336-1405), the governor of western Chagatai Ulis, made it his capital. Amir Temur has formed a huge empire from India up to the Mediterranean for a few decades. Samarqand became a symbol of his new empire. Temur initiated big construction works. New architecture with huge portals, high blue domes and refined majolica must have competed against Eurasian capitals and meant a birth of the Central Asian imperial style.
Amir Temur died before a great Chinese campaign and was buried Temurid's grandson Muhammad-Sultan (1376-1403) who expected to be his successor, but died too early. Remains of Seyid Berke, a spiritual teacher of Amir Temur, were also reburied there. The mausoleum was finished at Mirzo Ulugbeg, another grandson of Temur, when the eastern gallery and southern funeral structures had been constructed. In the 15th century one more significant cleric was buried in Gur-Emir. He is deemed Seyid Umar, the son of Bukhara sheikh Amir Kulal.