BUKHARA, Uzbekistan (JTA) – Driving through this dusty desert city of many ornate and ancient mosques, Shirin Yakubov recalls the ruthlessness of her country’s recently deceased president of ...

This led them to a place that local people called Ak Metchet (the white mosque), a compound in southeast Uzbekistan where the community lived until the Soviet period. The second is the story of a ...

Tashkent, a city where ancient mosques and madrassas meet modern innovation, is a living tribute to the enduring cultural and ...

Uzbekistan opened itself to the world through ... Notable are the country’s many vibrant domed mosques, including the famed Bibi-Khanym Mosque in Samarkand, which was once the largest in the ...