Salyakhkhona Gate

The Salyakhkhona Gate stands in the southern part of old Bukhara, in the quarter of the same name. Eleven gates cut through the city wall, but most of them have not survived to our day, and the passages that remain were rebuilt anew. Two round towers with crenellated tops carry a pointed passage with wooden leaves, and the masonry is laid in pale fired brick. A quarter mosque and the old Sallokhkhona madrasa survive beside it, and further along the street begins a residential mahalla with blank mud-brick facades. Tourists hardly ever come here, although it is only a kilometre from Lyabi-Hauz.

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