Peoples' Friendship Palace

The Peoples' Friendship Palace (Uzbek: Xalqlar doʻstligi saroyi, Russian: Дворец Дружбы народов) is the concert and cinema hall in Tashkent, capital city of Uzbekistan.

The building was designed by architect Yevgeny Rozanov from the Moscow Architectural Institute who one decade prior to that worked on the city's Lenin Museum, modern day State Museum of History of Uzbekistan.

[2] The palace is named in the memory of solidarity and friendship of volunteers who came to the city after the devastating 1966 Tashkent earthquake.

[3] The interior of the building was decorated with ceiling lights, chandeliers, large plaster panels and with three monumental florentine mosaics, named "Peoples' Friendship", "Holiday" and "Land of Flowers", on the banquet hall walls.

[3] The building's façade and decorations draw inspiration from national ornamental patterns, reminiscent of muqarnas elements found in local architecture.