Bukhara: towards the outskirts
The Samanid mausoleum (Ismoil Samoniy Maqbarasi), in a park just outside the historic urban centre of Bukhara. It is considered to be one of the most highly esteemed work of Central Asian architecture, and was built between 892 and 943 CE as the resting-place of Ismail Samani - a powerful and influential amir of the Samanid dynasty, one of the last native Persian dynasties that ruled in Central Asia in the 9th and 10th centuries.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Fri Jun 14, 2013