Friday (Jummi) Mosque Khiva

I woke up really early and decided to go for a walk around Khiva. I walked through the Eastern gate, through a hallway (that I later learned was the slave market) that opened onto a beautiful enclave of madrassas (Muslim schools). I got chills! It was the slightest taste of what it must have felt like to have been travelling the Silk Road hundreds …

... and this column has lotus blossoms around the top and a small figure of a man on the carving.  It is also called the Friday Mosque.             As we are walking to our next stop, a couple of ...

... no musicians present. They also didnt have any of the music cds I was looking for   Next we went to the Juma or Friday Mosque. There were many long timber pillars made from local trees. He explained these were left to soak in dung to harden them. ...