{"id":49582,"date":"2026-09-17T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=49582"},"modified":"2026-09-16T23:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:27:32","slug":"divine-splendour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/divine-splendour\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine splendour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timur\">Timur<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s mausoleum in Samarkand, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gur-e-Amir\">Gur-e Amir<\/a><\/strong>, is an architectural marvel dating from 1403 which is said to have inspired the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taj_Mahal\">Taj Mahal<\/a><\/strong> (1631) in Agra and the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Petersburg_Mosque\"> St Petersburg Mosque<\/a><\/strong>, Russia (1910). It could be a symbol of the much-discussed and much-commented-on concept of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/politics\/silk-road-paradigm-central-asia-china-europe\/\">the Silk Road<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Credits:\u00a0<strong>Salom\u00e9 Aldeguer-Roure<\/strong>\u00a0(France)<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timur\u2019s mausoleum in Samarkand, the Gur-e Amir, is an architectural marvel dating from 1403 which is said to have inspired the Taj Mahal (1631) in Agra and the St Petersburg Mosque, Russia (1910). It could be a symbol of the much-discussed and much-commented-on concept of the Silk Road. Credits:\u00a0Salom\u00e9 Aldeguer-Roure\u00a0(France)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":49583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4002,4012,3974],"coauthors":[4750],"class_list":["post-49582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-samarkand","tag-uzbekistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49588,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49582\/revisions\/49588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49582"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=49582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}