Bibi-Khanym Mosque
Also known as Bibi-Khanum Mosque
1404
Islamic
mosque
Timur built Bibi-Khanym as an enormous Friday mosque for his capital after the Indian campaign of the 1390s, finished in 1404 on a footprint that ArchNet reconstructs at about 109 by 167 metres. The plan organized an entrance portal…
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Timeline
- 1897
Earthquake collapse of the inner portal arch, beginning a long ruin phase before twentieth-century restoration.
- 1968-1979
Soviet and Uzbek conservation campaigns restoring portal, sanctuary, and tile revetment after decades as a grand ruin.
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