• Afghanistan
• Bāmiyān province (C)
• Folādi

Folādi

The cliffs of Foladi are remotely located to the southeast of the city of Bamiyan in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan. The rock-cut Buddhist sanctuary of Foladi comprises a number of artificial chambers with some of them reaching up to four or fives stories, that are inaccessible today. Some of the caves have decorations of latern ceilings with fragments of mural paintings. (Klimburg-Salter 1989, pp. 73, 176) The exact building date of Foladi complex is not known. The chambers however were painted between the 5th and the 9th century A.D. (Taniguchi/Kuchitsu/Kirino 2006, pp. 47-48.)

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