Baland Mosque is a small neighbourhood mosque in Bukhara, easy to miss if you only follow the main monument circuit. Its name means "high," and the building is valued less for scale than for the delicacy of its wooden ceiling, painted decoration, and intimate prayer hall.
Visit when you want a break from Bukhara's grand madrasas and trading domes. The mosque shows the city's domestic religious architecture at a human scale, with craftsmanship that rewards slow looking rather than wide-angle photography.