Awbeh

Awbeh, or Obeh, stands on the north bank of the Hari River east of Herat, on the road toward Chisht. Here the river enters a fertile valley whose fields are watered by its flow. The remains of an old citadel, surrounded by a ditch, and pottery from the medieval and Timurid periods testify to the settlement's long history. Its Friday mosque preserves a fifteenth-century inscription, a reminder of the place's connection with the flourishing cultural world of Timurid Herat.