This led them to a place that local people called Ak Metchet (the white mosque), a compound in southeast Uzbekistan where the community lived until the Soviet period. The second is the story of a ...

Tucked away in central Asia lies a country known for its stunning mosques, mausoleums and other sites linked to the Silk Road ...

Another mosque in the city - the Hazrat Sultan Mosque ... historic Islamic religious sites like the Registan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, built in 15th-17th century.

Uzbekistan declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and its skilled artisans are expertly restoring its neglected ...

Uzbekistan opened itself to the world through ... Notable are the country’s many vibrant domed mosques, including the famed Bibi-Khanym Mosque in Samarkand, which was once the largest in the ...