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The Registan square - The Shir-Dar Medresseh and mosque with unusual decorations built from 1619 to 1636 by Yalangyushbee, the military governor of the city during the Astrakhan dynasty. It replaced a ruin of an earlier rest house. the entrance portal is 79 feet high. The decoration on each side show a lion chasing a deer

 
     

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