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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Bukhara (Uzbekistan)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalcreation date: 1127-1129en_US
dc.creatorUnknownen_US
dc.date1127-1129en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-03T15:28:25Z
dc.date.available2010-06-03T15:28:25Z
dc.date.issued1127-1129en_US
dc.identifier144272en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/53571en_US
dc.descriptionRising 46 meters (150ft), the Kalyan minaret is the most prominent visual landmark within the city of Bukhara. Erected as part of a twelfth century mosque later replaced by the existing Kalyan mosque, the baked brick construction forms a thick, tapering cylindrical shaft capped by a rotunda with 16 arches. A multi-tiered muqarnas cornice crowns the entire structure. Baked brickwork decorates the shaft in bands of various, unrepeated patterns. The minaret was not only used for the call to prayer, but also as a watchtower during periods of war. Tradition also relates that the condemned were in earlier times sentenced to a death on the stones beneath the minaret, after a fall from its heights.en_US
dc.descriptiongeneral view, minaret with Madrasah of Mir Arab in background, 1987en_US
dc.format.extentheight: 46 m, diameter: 9 men_US
dc.format.mediumbricken_US
dc.relation.ispartof114109en_US
dc.rights(c) Roya Marefat 1987en_US
dc.subjectMosquesen_US
dc.subjectMinaretsen_US
dc.subjectMadrasahsen_US
dc.subjectIslamic religious educationen_US
dc.subjectArchitecture, Islamic--Asia, Centralen_US
dc.subjectArchitecture, Islamic --Uzbekistanen_US
dc.titleKalyan Minareten_US
dc.title.alternativeKalan Minareten_US
dc.title.alternativeTower of Deathen_US
dc.typeImageen_US
dc.rights.accessAll rights reserveden_US
dc.identifier.vendorcodeB125en_US
vra.culturalContextCentral Asianen_US
vra.culturalContextIslamicen_US
vra.culturalContextUzbeken_US
vra.techniqueconstructionen_US
vra.worktypeMinareten_US
dc.contributor.displayCentral Asian, Islamic, Uzbeken_US


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