Kalon Mosque Bukhara

... built around a pool in 1620. I spent the day just wandering around this very historic city, visiting: - multidomed-roof bazaars - medressas - Kalon Mosque (big enough for 10,000 people, reopened in 1991 as a place of worship) - Kalon Minaret (one ...

... , with its two attractively decorated turquoise domes, is a working medressa which tourists aren't allowed to enter. The Kalon Mosque, opposite the Mir-i-Arab Medressa, has a beautifully harmonious courtyard.  The mosque, with a single big ...

... a golden glow fell over the city. We arrived the Mir-m-Arab Medressa at the perfect time for photos. Opposite the medressa the Kalon Mosque was gleaming against the cloudless blue sky – the only blemish was a fingernail crescent of the moon that ...

... Soviet spy mullahs when they had Middle East ambitions. Spent a lot of time, and shot a lot of photos in the Kalon Mosque, which was a hollow square with a tree in the middle, surrounded by 4 rows of arched galleries for the faithful to ...

... Timur would use copiously thereafter), there are 14 design tiers around it and there are 105 stairs within it, accessible from Kalon Mosque. Next to the minaret sits the Kalon Mosque (16th century), BUILT OVER THE EARLIER ONE DESTROYED BY Ghengis ...