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Kalyan minaret , Asia's oldest minaret, in Bukhara
No full textBuilt from brick in 1227 by the Karakhanid Arslan Khan, the Kalyan minaret used to be a mosque tower, a watchtower and, in the 17th-19th centuries, a place of executions. It is widely known as the "Tower of Death
Nadir Divanbegi Khanagha in downtown Bukhara
No full textThe 19th-century Hungarian scholar and dervish Armin Vambery described the Divanbegi Khanagha as the principal center for performances and intellectual activities of Bukhoro residents in the nineteenth century. The mosque was built in 1619-1620
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