Po-i-Kalon
Also known as Po-i-Kalan Complex
1127
Islamic
landscape
Po-i-Kalan is the principal religious ensemble of historic Bukhara, an asymmetric square between three buildings that together carry almost a thousand years of Bukharan construction: the Kalan Minaret of 1127, the Kalan Mosque rebuilt in…
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- 1514
The Kalan Mosque was rebuilt as the Shaybanid-era congregational mosque on the foundations of the older Karakhanid prayer hall.
- 1535-1536
The Mir-i-Arab Madrasah was built opposite the mosque, completing the paired-monument kosh composition that defines the square.
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