Bukhara is one of most attractive and legendary cities of
world, where Kalyan minaret is a minaret of the Po-i-Kalyan mosque complex in
Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It is most prominent landmarks in the city, which had been
captured and destroys several times and restored again. Anyone can get general
idea of the city by having upstairs in the Kalyan Minaret situated in the
territory of Pio-Kalyan complex. The beautiful minaret actually is designed by
Bako, and it was built by the Qarakhanid ruler Muhammad Arslan Khan in 1127 to
summon Muslims to offer prayer five times a day. It is made in the form of a
circular-pillar baked brick tower, narrowing upwards.
The minaret is 149.61 ft high and the body of the minaret is
topped by a rotunda with 16 arched fenestrations, from which the muezzins
summoned the Muslims in the city to prayer. The minaret is also famous as the “Tower
of Death” because until as recently as the early twentieth century criminals
were executed by being thrown from the top. This is most remarkable sightseeing
of Bukhara, which was served as a lighthouse for the caravans going through a
desert.
The Minaret has real greatness, when forces of Genghis Khan
entered in the ancient city destroying everything on their way, the great
commander's cap fell when he had raised the head to look round the minaret. He
said: "Such great that forced me to take off the cap!" Genghis Khan
gave credit for its superiority and didn't destroy. There is a brick spiral
staircase that twists up inside around the pillar to the rotunda. The tower
base has narrow ornamental strings belted across it made of bricks which are
placed in both straight and diagonal fashion. The frieze is covered with a blue
glaze with inscriptions.
In the ancient war times, the warriors normally used the
minaret as a watch tower to observatory the enemies. The Kalyan Minaret is
still dominates the skyline of Bukhara, surprising all who see it with its wonderful
and flawless shape. The minaret is famous, and startlingly recent, use was for
public execution, where those condemned to die were thrown from the rotunda at
the top to the stone courtyard below. The last recognized execution took place in
the late 1920,s during the Russian Revolution. If you’re travelling to Bukhara Uzbekistan,
then spare lot of time for sightseeing, and we’d be sure you wouldn’t want to
miss out the top attractions of Kalyan Minaret.
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