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Kalon Mosque — Bukhara Tilework Program (c. 1514)

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The tile decoration program of the Kalon Mosque, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1514. Polychrome geometric and floral tilework on the portal and dome continues the Timurid tradition in a 16th-century Shaybanid-Uzbek synthesis.

Scholarly Significance

Introduce Central Asian Timurid-Uzbek tilework tradition with Kalon Mosque, Bukhara.

Notes

·The Poi Kalon ensemble in central Bukhara — Kalon Minaret (1127), Kalon Mosque (c. 1514), Mir-i-Arab Madrassa (1535) — forms the primary civic-religious center of historic Bukhara.
·The Shaybanids positioned themselves as heirs of the Timurid cultural tradition.