Kalyan Mosque (Maedjid-i kalyan) In Bukhara, Uzbekistan

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Kalyan Mosque (Maedjid-i kalyan) In Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It is part of the The Po-i-Kalyan complex (also Poi Kalyan), which means "The foot of the Great". The complex is located at the historic part of the city. Since 713, several ensembles of main cathedral mosques were built in this area to the south of the Ark citadel. One of these complexes, burnt out by Genghis Khan during the siege of Bukhara, was built in 1121 by the Karakhanid ruler Arslan-khan. The Minaret Kalyan is the only of structures of Arslan-han complex, which was kept safe during that siege.

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Location: Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Photo credit: © Mark Davidson / Alamy / Afripics
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