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Original Description: General view of the Shakh-i Zindeh mosque (evening photo). Samarkand.

English: Evening View of a Mosque. The Pamir Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop for an evening view of the Shakh-i Zindeh Mosque in Samarkand, a complex of graves and mortuary chapels built over many centuries for the women of the dynasties descended from Timur (Tamerlane, 1336-1405), the great medieval ruler of Central Asia.
Date between 1905 and 1915
Source Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)
US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.03978.
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