Uzbekistan: Outside Chorsu Bazaar

The blue domes of Chorsu Bazaar are one of the market’s most recognizable features, blending Soviet-era engineering with the architectural language of Central Asia. Wide, turquoise, and almost futuristic-looking - they were built in the 1980s, but its color and form echo the tiled domes found across historic Silk Road cities like Samarkand and Bukhara.