Around 3500 years before Christ there was a sanctuary associated with a fertility goddess, later on assimilated with the Phoenician Astarte and Greek Aphrodite. 34.706989,32.573285
The Kalon mosque was built in 1500 and received Muslim pilgrims of all Asia and the Middle East.
Before, much before, Bukhara was part of the Persian empire. Alexander the Great conquered it, then the Arabs, followed by Ghengis Khan. The city its more than 2500 years old.