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Kalyan Minaret

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Kalan Minaret
Tower of Death
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/52518
Date
1127-1129
Description
Rising 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.
 
general view, at twilight, 2009
 
Type of Work
Minaret
Subject
Mosques, Minarets, Madrasahs, Islamic religious education, Architecture, Islamic--Asia, Central, Architecture, Islamic --Uzbekistan
Rights
(c) Igor Demchenko 2009
Rights Statement
All rights reserved
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