Kalyan Minaret

Bukhara Region · Uzbekistan

Kalyan Minaret, Uzbekistan
Photo: Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A towering brick minaret in Bukhara built in the twelfth century, its bands of ornamental brickwork catching the light. So striking was its scale that invading armies reportedly spared it from destruction.

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