Scars in the Blue Mosque Reveal Afghanistan’s Rifts

The namesake of Mazar-i-Sharif suffered countless cracks in a 6.3-magnitude quake, but, like Afghanistan, it has endured for centuries.

By Yaqoob Akbary, Safiullah Padshah and Elian Peltier · The New York Times – World

The namesake of Mazar-i-Sharif suffered countless cracks in a 6.3-magnitude quake, but, like Afghanistan, it has endured for centuries.