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Original Description: General view of the Shakh-i Zindeh mosque (evening photo). Samarkand.

English: Evening View of a Mosque. The Pamir Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop for an evening view of the Shakh-i Zindeh Mosque in Samarkand, a complex of graves and mortuary chapels built over many centuries for the women of the dynasties descended from Timur (Tamerlane, 1336-1405), the great medieval ruler of Central Asia.
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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)
Date

between 1905 and 1915
Author

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
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Image title early colour photograph from the Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)
Orientation Normal
Horizontal resolution 1008.097 dpi
Vertical resolution 1008.097 dpi
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
File change date and time 01:26, 14 September 2007
Author Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Copyright holder copyright expired
Colour space 65535
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