Once an influential Jewish hub on Central Asia's Silk Road, urban center in Uzbekistan is now home to just several hundred ...

Bukhara City Day and Bukhara Handicraft Day festivals kicked off in Bukhara. Bukhara City Day and Bukhara Handicraft Day festivals kicked off in Bukhara. At the opening ceremony, the khokim of the ...

When the sun rises over Bukhara’s old caravanserais, its ancient clay walls catching the light just as they did for Silk Road merchants centuries ago, the city feels like it is breathing again. This ...

Ruben Saakyan and Konstantin Lazarev's “The Observer’s Illusion” (2025) (foreground) and Antony Gormley and Temur Jumaev's “CLOSE,” (2024–2025) (background) installed at the former Khoja Kalon Mosque ...

Having visited the Bukhara region, you will be amazed at the huge number of ancient monuments located here – the Poi-Kalan architectural ensemble, the majestic Sitorai Mokhi Khosa palace, the ancient ...

A sister city or twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

Not surprisingly for a city that has been around for millennia, Bukhara boasts a rich architectural heritage. Its beautiful historical, center with numerous mosques and madrasahs was added to UNESCO's ...

The first conquest of the historical Bukhara city by the Muslims was in 674 by the governor of Khorasan, Ubeydullah Bin Ziyad. But only 30 years later, the Islamic ruling of the city was achieved.