Tashkent is by far the largest and most modern city we will visit in Uzbekistan.  It’s a great way to start to get a sense of some of the gems that await us. The blue green color of the domes should get a Pantone color named after it.

Ths Hazrati Imam complex has a library of oriental manuscripts and the Caliph Usman Quran.  It is considered the only original manuscript of the Qur’on that has reached us.  It has 353 parchment sheets.  (No pictures were allowed.)

We also visited the State Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan which is housed in the former palace of the Russian diplomat Alexander Alexandrovich Polovtsev Jr.