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12-MAY-2009

Tillya Kari Madrassa

Smaller corner turrets are preferred to minarets in this madrassa, but the mosaic feast is just as lavish - sprightly solar symbols and interlacing floral motifs in similar colours to the Shirdar. Where the other madrassas feature facade wings of shallow niches without openings, the Tillya Kari declares its religious purpose with two stories of hujra (a small chamber or cell), ventilated by panjara (carved plaster windows)

Canon EOS 5D ,Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
1/320s f/13.0 at 40.0mm iso800 full exif

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