Approaching Bibi Honim
2015 Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Approaching the Bibi-Khanym Mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, photographed in 2015. Built in the late fourteenth century under Timur, it was once among the largest mosques in the Islamic world.
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