Religious teachers performing a sacred drama in Registan Square with Tilakari Mosque in the background, Samarqand, Uzbekistan, 1891

Title: Religious teachers performing a sacred drama in Registan Square with Tilakari Mosque in the background, Samarqand, Uzbekistan, 1891
Photographer: Sachtleben, William Lewis
Date Created: November 14, 1891
Date: 1891-11-14
Collection: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Description: Photograph of religious teachers performing a sacred drama in Registan Square, attended by a seated and standing audience. Tilakari (Tilya-Kori) Madrasah and Mosque is visible in the background.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
This photograph appears with the caption "A Religious Drama in Samarkand" in the book by Thomas Allen and William Sachtleben, Across Asia on a Bicycle (1897), p. 116.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: 5201 / [illegilbe no.,] 23
Text from negative sleeve: No. 23. Nov. 14, 1891: A holiday scene in the Registan at Samarcand -- the old city. The religious teachers performing a sacred drama. A native audience and auditorium.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: Tilakari Mosque (Samarqand, Uzbekistan)
Registan Square Uzbekistan Samarqand
Longitude: 39.654664
Latitude: 66.976089
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Mosques -- Uzbekistan -- Samarqand
Madrasahs -- Uzbekistan -- Samarqand
Bicycle touring -- Asia
Plazas -- Uzbekistan -- Samarqand

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1841_0307
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hfs28
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Rights statement: public domain
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.