It's nice to visit an active madrasa, mosque, holy site in Samarkand, a place still used and not turned into a tourist stop museum. The Khodja Abdi Darun complex offers such an opportunity.
The main mosque, nestled in a courtyard among trees and a central fountain.
The simple and elegant, carved wood columns and the plain, understated interior of one of the mosques.
The interior of another intimate mosque. Similar, different, lovely.
Out back is a cemetery with the dome of the old mosque looming. Dusty plastic flowers surround a simple gravestone.
The future. A big madrasa is being built next to the mosques.
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