30 AUGUST 2019 Y.
NEW YEAR IN THE EAST, NAVRUZ
For many thousands of years, Eastern people have been congratulating each other with New Year at this day (“navruz” means “new”), when Nature wakes up and true Spring comes.
30 AUGUST 2019 Y.
For many thousands of years, Eastern people have been congratulating each other with New Year at this day (“navruz” means “new”), when Nature wakes up and true Spring comes.
30 AUGUST 2019 Y.
At the entrance to Vabkent (the town, located in the suburbs of Bukhara) we can see how the horizon line is cut through tall & elegant minaret ("Place of kindling" in Arabic meaning), embodied in typical Asian style, with a round base.
30 AUGUST 2019 Y.
In the days before Bukhara even existed, a millenium before Islam was even a glimmer in the Prophet’s eye, the prophet came to the Zerafshan Valley and witnessed a great and terrible drought.
30 AUGUST 2019 Y.
Kosh means ‘double’ and is a general architectural term that can refer to any two opposing or facing halves of an ensemble.
30 AUGUST 2019 Y.
The first in Central Asia professional musical theatre was founded in 1929 by a team of enthusiasts from the ethnographic ensemble headed by M. Kari-Yakubov.
30 AUGUST 2019 Y.
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree defining new regulations for customs-free import of consumer goods by individuals.
30 AUGUST 2019 Y.
The Chor Minor ‘Four Minarets’ in Bukhara is one of the most charming and quirky buildings in the city, all the more surprising because, built-in 1807, it dates from a period of suffocating cultural stagnation.
26 AUGUST 2019 Y.
On Registan Square in the old town of the ancient city of Bukhara, there is Ark Citadel which counts its days back from 3rd century B.C.
22 AUGUST 2019 Y.
Carpet-weaving is one of the oldest types of applied arts which Uzbekistan is famous for. Eastern carpets live long lives.
16 AUGUST 2019 Y.
There is one more evidence that Zoroastrianism and Nestorianism were existing peacefully side by side that is a pattern in architecture called “Zoroastrianism Butterfly” that reminds Nestorian cross.
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