Asia Grace


Mosque of Ali

Mazar-i-sharif, Afghanistan

After the steady browns and muted earth tones of rural Afghanistan, the vibrant blues, greens and yellows of their main mosques are a shocking relief. Prohibited by Islam from depicting pictures, they blast the eyeballl with titillating patterns in tile.

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