: Tower of Death  The Kalyan minaret in Bukhara #Uzbekistan

Dunk Bukhara • 25-09-2010  

: The Kalyan minaret, built in 1127 to summon Muslims to prayer, so impressed Genghis Khan that he ordered it to be spared when all around was destroyed by his men. It is also known as the Tower of Death, because until as recently as the early twentieth century criminals were executed by being thrown from the top en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalyan_Minaret CC BY-SA picture of the Kalyan Minaret by Euyasik via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Ajwz

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