Turkmenbashi's mosque

Photographer: Gesine Cheung
From: Wacky Dictators

Turkmenbashi's mosque

This mosque is built next to Turkmenbashi's mausoleum. It can hold 20,000 people and cost US$128 million to build. We had to wait for evening prayers to finish before going inside for a look, of which a grand total of 6 people were inside. To me this building represented all that is excessive and wrong with the Turkmenistan administration.