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Senin, 20 Juni 2011

Bibi-Khanym Mosque (مسجد بی بی خانم, Bibi-Xonum machiti), Samarkand, Uzbekistan (O‘zbekiston, Ўзбекистон)

This is a photo of the cupola of the main chamber of the Bibi-Khanym Mosque, a famous historical mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, whose name comes from the wife of 14th-century ruler, Amir Timur. The cupola reaches a height of 40 metres.

Kamis, 02 Juni 2011

Kalyan Mosque (Maedjid-i kalyan), Po-i-Kalyan (Poi Kalyan), Bukhara (Buxoro, Бухоро, بُخارا), Uzbekistan (O‘zbekiston, Ўзбекистон)

This photo was taken at Po-i-Kalyan (also Poi Kalyan), which means "The foot of the Great", and which belongs to the architectural complex located at the foot of the great Kalyan minaret in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. The complex is located at historic part of a town. Since 713 several ensembles of main cathedral mosques were built at this area to the south of the Ark citadel. One of these complexes,