The mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, erected over the grave, was the founder of the largest Turkic sanctuary, religious distributor, Sufi association. His work “Diwani Hikmet” is widespread in the Turkic world. It covers Islamic…
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…
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…
Bronze lamps donated by the great commander Amir Timur, which has been stored from the XIV century in the mausoleum of Ahmed Yasawi, They were installed as a stand for lighting the mausoleum. Lamps were…
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…
In the northwestern compartment of the building there is a cruciform in plan – a mosque. It is covered by a double dome. For the formation of the square base of the dome, here for…
Halim khana (askhana), which served as the kitchen for preparing the ritual dish “Halim”, according to V.A. Gordlevsky – “ataala-koje.” The room is a large stove with two boilers. Until now, there are kept old…
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”),…
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…
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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