Mosque
Completed 1514, Shaybanid period
Kalyan Mosque
Bukhara's great Friday mosque, finished in 1514 around a courtyard wide enough for much of the city at prayer.
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Welcome to Bukhara.
You are now standing before one of the most important monuments of the Poi-Kalyan ensemble: the magnificent Kalyan Mosque.
If the Kalyan Minaret is the vertical symbol of this ensemble, rising dramatically into the Bukhara skyline, then the mosque is its great horizontal centre — a vast space designed to bring people together.
The word “Kalyan” means “great” or “large.” The mosque was Bukhara's great congregational, or Friday, mosque.
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