The Palace of Nowruz has fifteen halls, a banquet room, an art room, a lounge room, five VIP rooms, a billiard room, a supermarket, a bowling hall, a night club, a cinema with 3D, and a souvenir shop. It holds some 3,200 guests. We didn’t get to visit all the rooms but we visited enough to give a good idea about the place. It has held international conferences but can also be rented by Tajiks for weddings or parties or anything they want. Each hall and room was very different from the others. We were told that some 4,000 artists and crafts people worked for five years doing all the work.

The banquet room is in the first photo. This will give you a start on appreciation for the marvelous work done by the local artists. We are talking about wood carving, ceiling painting, mirror work, stone carving, plasterers, wooden ornaments, and on and on.

It’s easy to imagine an international conference being held in the room in the second photo. But this conference table is just the inner portion of the room. Outside of the arched walls is a very large space clear around the table which could hold many more people. This entire room was spectacular.

The conference room in the third photo is actually smaller than the conference room in the second photo, but it has no partitioning between the conference table and the rest of the room. This room was also very grand but I especially liked the wood floors with all the in-lay work.

I’m not sure the specific function of the hall in the fourth photo but it was an incredibly impressive room, though not a great photo. I think this might have been the garden hall banquet room. It was almost all wood from floor to ceiling and had incredible carving and inlaying in the floor. It also had a large second story balcony which is where I took this photo from.

The last room was largely glass including the art work in the room. This might have been called the waiting room. If not the waiting room, then one of the smaller halls.