Shah-i Zindah Tombs

It is a magic place! One feels like seating and staying, and breathing the calm and the tranquility of the place, looking at the colors, the forms, the textures of the materials around us. Just to stay and contemplate for a long time, to get soaked with calm.

The Shah-i-Zindah complex includes mausoleums and other ritual buildings of 9-14th and 19th centuries. Its main entrance gate dates back from the first half of the XV century. The ensemble includes about twenty buildings. The complex is set on a hillside, the buildings set along narrow alleys, up and down the hill. Some of them are in naked bricks, others are covered, both inside and outside, by intricately elaborated and colorful patterns of mosaics.
We spent hours there watching everything over and over again.