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Description: Evening View of a Mosque. The Pamir Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop for an evening view of the Shakh-i Zindeh Mosque in Samarkand, a complex of graves and mortuary chapels built over many centuries for the women of the dynasties descended from Timur (Tamerlane, 1336-1405), the great medieval ruler of Central Asia.
Title: Gorskii 03978u
Credit: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.03978. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/− Restoration by trialsanderrors: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trialsanderrors/2862414397/
Author: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
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