AFGHANISTAN Mother of Cities Balkh Shrine of Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa Local girl Built by Sultan Husayn Bayqara in late Timurid style in the 5th Century and dedicated to a famous theologian who died in Balkh in 1460. The dome was badly damaged in an earthquake in the 1990s and hit by rocket during factional fighting in 2003

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Previous PostAFGHANISTAN Herat Boy outside the Friday Mosque or Masjet-eJamOriginally laid out on the site of an earlier 10th century mosque in the year 1200 by the Ghorid Sultan Ghiyasyddin. Restoration started in 194
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Previous PostAFGHANISTAN Herat Boy outside the Friday Mosque or Masjet-eJamOriginally laid out on the site of an earlier 10th century mosque in the year 1200 by the Ghorid Sultan Ghiyasyddin. Restoration started in 194