Shah-i-Zinda
Also known as Shoh-i Zinda
1500
Islamic
funerary chapel
Shah-i-Zinda is a layered necropolis along a pilgrimage route, where Qarakhanid, Timurid, and later mausoleums, mosques, madrasas, and ritual buildings line a narrow processional sequence at the edge of ancient Afrasiyab. The earliest…
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- Paul Nadar · Public domain
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