Sacred Place
Gur-e Amir Mausoleum
- Place type
- Sacred Place
- Elevation
- 717 m
Field notes
The field account
The Gur-e Amir (or Guri Amir) is a mausoleum of the Asian conqueror Tamerlane (also known as Timur) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
It occupies an important place in the history of Persian-Mongolian Architecture as the precursor and model for later great Mughal architecture tombs, including Humayun's Tomb in Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra
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Where it sits
Visual field notes
A closer look