Ancient tiles of blue ceramic decorate the walls of the Sufi shrine of Khwaja Abdulla Ansari, at Gazargah, outside of Herat

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Ancient tiles of blue ceramic decorate the walls of the Sufi shrine of Khwaja Abdulla Ansari, at Gazargah, outside of Herat, Afghanistan. The Sufi poet, Abdulla Ansari, is buried at the shrine, which dates to 1425 and contains some of the best examples of Timurid decoration in Herat.

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Size: 5505px × 3685px
Location: Herat Herat Province Afghanistan
Photo credit: © Beth Wald / Aurora Photos / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: afghanistan, ancient, art, ceramic, color, craft, day, decoration, herat, heritage, history, horizontal, image, mosaic, outdoors, pattern, province, shrine, sufi, timurid, town, wall