Tashkent - random street scenes, and churches.

Tashkent is a very modern city, with wide multi lane streets.  These are various shots taken from the bus.

After mosques and madrassahs, we wondered about churches  We saw this one from the bus.  It is a Russian Orthodox Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, Tashkent.  It was built in 1871, and enlarged in the 1990s.  It was a pity we couldn't have a closer look.  There is also a bell-tower.

But after the rest of the group had gone to the airport, BL and I went looking for churches marked on our map.  We only found one.  It was the Sacred Heart Cathedral, aka the Polish Roman Catholic Church.  Construction began in 1912, the church was closed 1926 and the building abandoned.  It was restored in 1976. 

It had a bell too!