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01-AUG-2013 © MiekeWAMinkjan

Bibi Khanym Mosque

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

It was immense what they tried to build in the 14th century,
but it collapsed because of the weight,
an earthquake in 1897 made that the mosque had a total collapse.
Since the 1970 some restoration work has been done

Canon EOS 7D
1/250s f/11.0 at 26.0mm iso100 full exif

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