The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is the largest complex in which architects could combine a mausoleum, mosque, and khanaka madrasah into one building, where, as a rule, individually in religious complexes. It consists of…
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The Central hall – kazandyk, which is a huge square room with sides of 18.5 m. In the center of the room is a huge boiler – a masterpiece of medieval bronze art, the work…
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The tomb of Khoja Ahmad Yasawi – Gur Khan, also square in plan with sides of 7.15 m, carries the same shallow niches decorated with openwork stalactites along the centers of the sides, as in…
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In the North-Eastern section of the building there is a Large Aksaray and a Small Aksaray lying opposite. The name of the premises is not related to their color (“AK-Saray” means literally “white chamber Palace”),…
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Small Aksaray — a room where for six hundred years the most respected people were buried. Small Aksaray is a room that looks stretched under the influence of deep openings on the walls. At the…
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The well (kudykkhana), connected through the kazandyk and the corridor, on the east side of the building, with the stairs rising to the tower, is a stretch due to emergency openings in the south. The…
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