Tilla Sheikh Mosque (‘golden sheikh mosque’), standing opposite Barak-Khan Madrasah, was built in 1856 - 1857. It is still a functioning mosque, featu

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Tilla Sheikh Mosque (‘golden sheikh mosque’), standing opposite Barak-Khan Madrasah, was built in 1856 - 1857. It is still a functioning mosque, featuring minarets, a praying hall, a library and household facilities. There is also an iwan (a gallery-like structure with one side or two sides entirely open) added on to the mosque to pray outdoors. The hall has a mihrab decorated with carvings (Mihrab is a niche in the wall of a mosque that shows the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and hence the direction Muslims should face when praying.) and a minbar pulpit. The windows of the mosque feature beautiful traditional Central Asian panjara stucco latticework Taken @Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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