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No-Gonbad Mosque Mosque of Nine Cupolas also known as Khoja Piada or Masjid-e Haji Piyada Mosque of the Walking Pilgrim Carved stucco decoration on column Dates to the early 9th Century A.D. Earliest Islamic monument identified in Afghanistan has influences from the Achaemenid Graeco-Bactrain and Kushano-Sasanian periods few dateable examples of mosque architecture exist anywhere in the world form this early periodes Jane Sweeney
