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 ...

Uzbekistan is brimming with spellbinding architecture and magnificent blue-tiled mosques (Picture: Rich Booth) If I had any illusions about Uzbekistan’s modernity, they were quickly dispelled on ...

On November 12-13, at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the leader of Uzbekistan ...

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Recen Samarkand, an ancient city in Uzbekistan with a history spanning thousands of years, is ...

Uzbekistan is a Central Asian nation and former Soviet republic. It's known for its mosques, mausoleums and other sites linked to the Silk Road, a network of trade routes that stretched from Asia ...

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 ...