Toʻpchiboshi madrasasi
1911 Bukhara, Uzbekistan
The Topchiboshi Madrasah in Bukhara, photographed in 1911. Bukhara was then the seat of the Emirate of Bukhara, a protectorate of the Russian Empire, and its many madrasahs made it a major center of Islamic learning.
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