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lcurran | all galleries >> Uzbekistan 2009 - The Silk Road >> Samarkand > Shirdar Madrassa
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12-MAY-2009

Shirdar Madrassa

This madrassa takes its name from the crude representation of the 'lion' (in close-up it resembles a tiger thus circumventing Islam's prohibition of the representation of human or animal figures) which surmounts the central giant archway of its facade

Canon EOS 5D ,Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
1/640s f/14.0 at 55.0mm iso800 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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