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Part of the ruin of the huge Bibi Khanum Mosque - built from 1399 to 1404 - It was 110 yards wisde by 153 yards long and one of the largest in the world, but the building construction methods - mortar - were insufficient - it decayed and then suffered in an earthquake in 1897.

 
     

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