Text taken from: Silk Road Cities. Documented through photographs, prints and postcards.
The monumental site Anau is situated 14 km southwest of Ashkhabad, the capital of present-day Turkmenistan. The Timurid town was erected during the reign of Abu’l-Qasim Babur Bahadur Khan (1447-1457) on the remains of a settlement destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century. The main archaeological site is the Shrine of Shaykh Jamal al-Din and the adjacent mosque.
Shrine of Shaykh Jamal al-Din (1455-1456)
Sources for Anau
Archnet: Anau