hopePlate 228 · Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Shah-i-Zinda

An avenue of mausoleums, a street of the living dead in turquoise.

11th–19th c. · Timurid patrons · Asia

The chamber score

Shashmaqam, Ushshaq

Bukharan court · Uzbekistan

A registan is six maqams in tile.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The necropolis of Shah-i-Zinda, a masterpiece of Timurid tilework.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Shah-i-Zinda through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

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Shift the feeling

What if Shah-i-Zinda was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.