Watchtower at ruins once the site of a 21ft standing Buddha in a niche discovered in 1030 and surrounded by caves whose Buddhists paintings thought to date from the 9th and 9th Centuries AD but remov...

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Friday Mosque or Masjet-eJam The courtyard Bronze couldron dating from the reign of the Kart kings of Herat 1332-1381 originally used as a receptacle for sherbat now used for donations for the upk...

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 1943

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

Timurid tilework on a tower of The Citadel Qala-i-Ikhtiyar-ud-din Originally built by Alexander the Great but built in its present form by Malik Fakhruddin in 1305 A.D. Conquerors Ghegnis Khan and T...

Inside The Citadel Qala-i-Ikhtiyar-ud-din Originally built by Alexander the Great but built in its present form by Malik Fakhruddin in 1305 A.D. Conquerors Ghegnis Khan and Tamerlane fought beneath...

The Citadel Qala-i-Ikhtiyar-ud-din Originally built by Alexander the Great but built in its present form by Malik Fakhruddin in 1305 A.D. Conquerors Ghegnis Khan and Tamerlane fought beneath its wal...

The Citadel Qala-i-Ikhtiyar-ud-din Originally built by Alexander the Great but built in its present form by Malik Fakhruddin in 1305 A.D. Conquerors Ghegnis Khan and Tamerlane fought beneath its wal...

Inside The Citadel Qala-i-Ikhtiyar-ud-din Originally built by Alexander the Great but built in its present form by Malik Fakhruddin in 1305 A.D. Conquerors Ghegnis Khan and Tamerlane fought beneath...

View from The Citadel Qala-i-Ikhtiyar-ud-din of rooftops

The Mousallah Complex MinaretOne of several minarets in this complex this one stands by Gaur Shad s Mausoleum with a mortar hole in it another one also near the mausoleum is partly destroyed and...