People walk past the construction work taking place on the Bibi Khanym Mosques, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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People walk past the construction work taking place on the Bibi Khanym Mosques, once one of the largest mosques in Central Asia, now a tourist attraction in Samarkand. A city once hugely important on the Old Silk Road trading route, Uzbekistan, CIS

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Size: 3404px × 5100px
Location: Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Photo credit: © jeremy sutton-hibbert / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: architecture, asia, asian, bibi, central, cis, destination, islam, islamic, khanym, mosque, mosques, muslim, religion, religious, road, samarkand, silk, tourism, tourist, travel, unesco, uzbekistan