Bukhara

Oblique view from the front of the Nadir-Divanbegi Madrasah, 1630s, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, pictured on July 11, 2010 in the afternoon. Nadir Divan-Begi, a Finance Minister or Grand Visier, commissioned the Madrassah as the final part of a complex also containing a Khanaka, or local mosque surrounded by cells for wandering Holy Men, and a Hauz or reservoir. The tympanum mosaic is secular in subject, depicting two simurgh birds with white does in their talons, perhaps because the building was originally intended to be a caravanserail. Bukhara, a city on the Silk Route is about 2500 years old. Its long history is displayed both through the impressive monuments and the overall town planning and architecture. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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