Bibi Khanym Mosque Samarkand

Samarkand! After long drives down the dust roads called a temporary highway, mild food poisoning from poorly cooked but delicious shashlik, and the felling of being completely lost in translation, i had finally arrived at the city that inspired the trip to Uzbekistan. The first night there was filled with more rain, but the warm desert heat made it …

... , he destroyed many others, sending booty from elsewhere to take care of his own.  You can look at the Registan, the Bibi-Khanym Mosque (named after his Chinese wife), the Shahr-i-Zindah from the top of a minaret, as I did with Yuki and Motoko (who ...

... our trip the the main attraction - the Registan - until later in the day when it's a bit cooler so we started with the Bibi Khanym Mosque - Tamerlane built it in the 14th century for his Chinese wife - it was huge - the main gate alone is 35 metres high, ...

... , made up of 3 medressas (Islamic colleges): Ulughbek, Sher Dor and Tilla-Kari Medressas. Other sites include Bibi-Khanym Mosque (Bibi-Khanym is Timur's Chinese wife), Guri Amir Mausoleum (where Timur and Ulughbek lie beneath) and Shahr-i-Zindah (an ...

... on the ferry) and general faffing we headed into town, along the Registan, in the midday sun. Our first stop was the Bibi-Khanym Mosque where we finally began to get the hang of haggling, getting in for half price. We wandered on through a small  ...

... he died in the 5th century bc. But you can work out the math for youself! On the walk back we stopped off in the Bibi-Khanym Mosque , which is one of the biggest in the world, where the legend is that the architect building it fell in love with Bibi, ...

... you stand at the back) light and sound show in French... The other main attraction is the huge Bibi Khanym Mosque complex. Construction of the mosque was completed in 1404 shortly after Emperor Timur successfully conquered India, leaving a ...

Bibi-Khanym Mosque is a famous historical mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, whose name comes from the wife of 14th-century ruler, Amir Timur.[1] After his Indian campaign in 1399 Timur decided to undertake the construction of a gigantic mosque in his new ...

... but back then, they probably didn't charge a steep admission price to get in. Not too far from the Registan is the Bibi-Khanym Mosque (1404), which is impressively huge (with a 35-meter-high gate) and attractively decorated, with nice ...

... barrage of photos we made our way back across town towards the Registan. Just past the Registan sat the enormous Bibi-Khanym Mosque, built immediately prior to Timur's death and standing till an earthquake struck Samarkand in 1897. The rebuilt mosque is ...

I spent today walking around to the other sights here. Bibi-Khanym mosque, named after one of Timur's wives. The place was finished in the early 1400s but collapsed in an earthquake in 1897. Recently restored. You do realise ALL the buildings here are ...