The three mausoleums forming the upper courtyard-like end of the alley: Tamerlane’s wife Tuman-Aqa’s (early 15th c; with a mosque included), religious

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The three mausoleums forming the upper courtyard-like end of the alley: Tamerlane’s wife Tuman-Aqa’s (early 15th c; with a mosque included), religious enlightener Hajji Ahmad’s (mid-14th c; built before Tamerlane) and the anonymous one of ‘a girl who died chaste’ (1361). The highest of them is Tuman-Aqa’s, with its bright blue dome dominating this part of the necropolis. Taken @Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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