| Shah-i-Zinda, one long walled-in street lined with mausoleums. Many of Tamerlane's relatives are buried here. | ||||||||||||
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| It is supposedly built around Mohammed's cousin who brought Islam to the area. So it's considered a very holy site. A door to one of the final domed halls (called a "chortak") down the street (I ran out of batteries on my camera so I wasn't able to take a picture of it) says that three visits to this site equal one pilgrimage to Mecca. |
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| A view down the street | ||||||||||||