Descripción del sitio
This marker is part of an extended History of Islamic Architecture
Bulhara, Uzbekistan
Masjid-i Jami or Kalyan Masjid
early 14th cent., 1514
Timurid, Shaybanid
This immense four-iwan mosque occupies the site of an earlier congregational mosque commissioned by Qarakhanid ruler Arslan Khan, of which only the minaret remains. The structure evident today was initiated under the Timurids during the fifteenth century and completed under Ubaydallah Khan, the Shaybanid appanage in Bukhara.
Hazarbaf brickwork predominates, with hexagonal haft-rangi floral tiles in the spandrels.
Photo by yves75, Panoramio