Kalon Mosque

The Kalon Mosque or Kalan, which means "great Mosque", is the former main mosque of Bukhara in Uzbekistan. It was decommissioned for worship in 1924. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, like the entire historical center of the city, it was built at the beginning of the sixteenth century under the Chaybanids on the site of an ancient twelfth-century Friday mosque. It could accommodate twelve thousand people. It is the most important Transoxiana mosque by its dimensions after that of Bibi-Khanum (1399-1404) in Samarkand. It is located opposite the Mir-i Arab Madrasah. It has been restored by UNESCO.