{
 "id": "building/kur-amir",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "kur-amir",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كور أمير (ضريح تيمور)",
  "en": "Gur-e Amir"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ضريح تيمور في سمرقند بقبته الزرقاء المضلعة (1404) — نموذج العمارة التيمورية الذي ألهم البناء المغولي في الهند.",
  "en": "Timur's ribbed-blue-domed mausoleum in Samarkand (1404) — the Timurid prototype that inspired Mughal building in India."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/mongol-post-mongol"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1403.9979602592798,
  "latest": 1405.0000342238059
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1404",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "tomb",
  "built": {
   "edtf": "1404",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q1256223"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture lane; existence/year via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ضريح تيمور في [[place/samarqand|سمرقند]] (1404م) بقبته الزرقاء المضلعة المرتفعة؛ دفن فيه تيمور وأبناؤه وأحفاده وشيخه مير سيد بركة. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "صار نموذج العمارة التيمورية الأشهر وألهم مقابر المغول في الهند؛ اسمه الفارسي «كور أمير» يعني قبر الأمير. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/kur-amir",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The tomb of Timur in [[place/samarqand|Samarkand]] (1404) with its tall, ribbed blue dome; Timur, his sons, grandsons and his teacher Mir Sayyid Baraka are buried there. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "It became the most famous model of Timurid architecture and inspired the tombs of the Mughals in India; its Persian name 'Gur-i Amir' means the tomb of the prince. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/kur-amir",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "تیمور کا مقبرہ [[place/samarqand|سمرقند]] میں (1404ء)، اپنے بلند نیلے کثیر الاضلاع گنبد کے ساتھ؛ اس میں تیمور، ان کے بیٹے، پوتے اور ان کے شیخ میر سید برکہ دفن ہیں۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر",
     "markdown": "یہ تیموری فن تعمیر کا سب سے مشہور نمونہ بن گیا اور ہندوستان میں مغل مقبروں کو متاثر کیا؛ اس کا فارسی نام «کور امیر» ہے، یعنی امیر کی قبر۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/kur-amir",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/abu-dulaf-mosque-samarra",
  "building/adana-great-mosque",
  "building/ahi-celebi-mosque",
  "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
  "building/al-attarine-madrasa",
  "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
  "building/al-janad-mosque",
  "building/al-mansur-mosque-marrakesh"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}