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| Mausoleum in the city of Turkestan, Kazakhstan | WIKI |
| The Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi (Kazakh: xd2x9axd0xbexd0xb6xd0xb0 xd0x90xd1x85xd0xbcxd0xb5xd1x82 xd0xafxd1x81xd1x81xd0xb0xd1x83xd0xb8 xd0xbaxd0xb5xd1x81xd0xb5xd0xbdxd0xb5xd1x81xd1x96, Qoja Ahmet Iassaxc3xbdxc4xb1 kesenesi) is a mausoleum in the city of Turkestan, in southern Kazakhstan. | WIKI |
| Despite its incomplete state, the mausoleum has survived as one of the best-preserved of all Timurid constructions. | WIKI |
| Location of the mausoleum within the town's defensive walls. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Location 2 History 2.1 Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi 2.2 New mausoleum 2.3 Decline and preservation 3 Architecture 4 Legacy 4.1 Birth of Timurid Architecture 4.2 Religious and cultural importance 5 See also 6 References 7 External links | WIKI |
| Rear view of mausoleum where banna'i technique - patterns of glazed brickwork - can be best observed. | WIKI |
| [11] Yasawi was interred in a small mausoleum, which became a pilgrimage site for Muslims. | WIKI |
| New mausoleum[edit] | WIKI |
| A view of the mausoleum, ca. | WIKI |
| [12] In Yasi, he put his attention to the construction of a larger mausoleum to house Yasawi's remains,[13][14] with the intention of glorifying Islam, promoting its further dissemination, and improving the governance of the immediate areas. | WIKI |
| The new mausoleum was begun in 1389. | WIKI |
| [3] However, the mausoleum was left unfinished, when Timur died in 1405. | WIKI |
| The dome of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi's mausoleum is the largest in Central Asia. | WIKI |
| Plan of Mausoleum. | WIKI |
| [16] Fortifications were erected to safeguard this commercial role,[6] including the 19th-century construction of defensive walls around the unfinished mausoleum,[3] which became an important landmark and pilgrimage center of the town. | WIKI |
| General View of Sultan Akhmed Yassavi's Mausoleum from the Southern Side (historic photo, created on around 1865-1872) | WIKI |
| Hence, the mausoleum was closed to the devotees who came to pay homage to Yasawi. | WIKI |
| [1] Nevertheless, the local khoja based at the mausoleum allowed pilgrims to secretly enter the structure at night. | WIKI |
| The site is under the administration of the Azret-Sultan State Historical and Cultural Reserve Museum, in charge with the safeguarding, research, conservation, monitoring and maintenance of the mausoleum. | WIKI |
| [3] The main entrance to the mausoleum is from the south-east, through which visitors are ushered into the 18.2 xc3x97 18.2-m (59.7 xc3x97 59.7-ft) Main Hall, known as Kazandyk (the "copper room"). | WIKI |
| [14] The mausoleum's exterior walls are covered in glazed tiles constituting geometric patterns with Kufic and Suls epigraphic ornaments derived from the Qur'an. | WIKI |
| The construction of the mausoleum provided important advances in building technology, displaying unsurpassed records of all kinds in terms of its vaulted constructions and artistic innovations. | WIKI |
| [3] The achievements derived from the mausoleum's erection, together with the Timuridsxe2x80x99 patronage of music, calligraphy, Persian miniature painting, literature, and various scientific pursuits,[1] gave birth to a distinct Islamic artistic style, to be known as Timurid. | WIKI |
| Entrance to mausoleum. | WIKI |
| The double dome technique executed in the mausoleum made possible the huge domes of the Timurid era. | WIKI |
| [20] Indeed, the mausoleum's main dome remains the largest existing brick dome in Central Asia. | WIKI |
| The mausoleum's construction at a time when many other Central Asian settlements had been experiencing building sprees under Timur's political ideology[3] allowed for the exchange of ideas and techniques across the empire. | WIKI |
| Bibi-Khanum Mosque: the world's largest mosque when it was completed in 1404;[24] it displays Timur's concern for monumental effect and theatrical arrangement Gur-i-Amir Mausoleum: the burial place of Timur; it contains a double shell dome for the achievement of a vertical effect Shah-i Zinda Complex: a funerary complex presenting the pinnacle of every tile technique known to the Timurids Registan: considered the pinnacle of Timurid architecture;[24] a broad plaza fronted by the towering edifices of three madrassas (Islamic schools), even if none of them were commissioned by Timur himself and were built in a later period by Ulug Beg and Governor Yalangtush. | WIKI |
| The mausoleum is thus seen as a prototype,[3] marking the beginning of a new architectural style,[4] which culminated in the monuments of Samarkand,[1] but was also continuously developed as in the case of India's Mughal Architecture. | WIKI |
| "[1][23] It is also for this reason that UNESCO has recognized the mausoleum as a World Heritage Site in 2003,[7] following the same international recognition for the sites of Samarkand, Humayun's Tomb and Taj Mahal. | WIKI |
| The larger mausoleum which Timurid ordered further enhanced the shrine's religious importance. | WIKI |
| [6] The mausoleum's holy reputation also reached foreign lands. | WIKI |
| In the early 16th century, Ubaydullah Khan, the successor to Muhammad Shaybani Kahn of the neighboring Uzbek Khanate, stopped at the mausoleum before his battle against Babur, who would later become the founder of the Mughal Empire. | WIKI |
| Despite the public closure of the monument during the Soviet era, the mausoleum has continued to draw pilgrims once the order was lifted. | WIKI |
| [5][6] Indeed, the mausoleum's importance to the town is attested by Turkestan's former name, Hazrat-e Turkestan, which literally means "Saint of Turkestan," a direct reference to Yasawi. | WIKI |
| Being the burial site for the Sufi theologian and the khanate's Kazakh nobility, the mausoleum has further enhanced the town's prestige. | WIKI |
| Built between 1389 and 1405, by order of Timur (Tamerlane), the ruler of Central Asia, it replaced a smaller 12th century mausoleum. | UNESCO |
| The property (0.55 ha) is limited to the mausoleum, which stands within a former citadel and the archaeological area of the medieval town of Yasi; the latter serves as the buffer zone (79.36 ha) for the property. | UNESCO |
| Rectangular in plan and 38.7 meters in height, the mausoleum is one of the largest and best-preserved examples of Timurid construction. | UNESCO |
| Considered to be an outstanding example of Timurid design that contributed to the development of Islamic religious architecture, the mausoleum is constructed of fired brick and contains thirty-five rooms that accommodate a range of functions. | UNESCO |
| It is a multifunctional structure of the khanaqa type, with functions of a mausoleum and a mosque. | UNESCO |
| The mausoleum is closely associated with the diffusion of Islam in this region with the help of Sufi orders, and with the political ideology of Timur. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): The mausoleum and its property represent an exceptional testimony to the culture of the Central Asian region, and to the development of building technology. | UNESCO |
| The Mausoleum stands within the former old town area, an archaeological area where the houses were destroyed in the 19th century. | UNESCO |
| The northern part of the old citadel wall was rebuilt in the 1970s, providing an enclosure for the mausoleum and adjacent buildings. | UNESCO |
| The new town of Turkestan, which developed to the west, has maintained a low skyline, allowing the mausoleum to stand out as a major monument within its context and maintain the required visual integrity. | UNESCO |
| Since Turkestan is situated in a vast plain, any high-rise buildings outside the buffer zone would have a significant impact on the visual integrity of the mausoleum. | UNESCO |
| The mausoleum has preserved its original vaultsxe2x80x99 structures and a large part of its external decoration. | UNESCO |
| The mausoleum site is included in the Plan of Zones of protection of monuments of the history and culture of the city of Turkestan (1986), which was prepared under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, by the State Institute for Scientific Research and Planning on Monuments of Material Culture (NIPI PMK, Almaty). | UNESCO |
| Locally, the care of the mausoleum and its setting is under the responsibility of the xe2x80x98Azret-Sultanxe2x80x99 State Historical and Cultural Reserve Museum which was founded under the Committee of Culture of the Ministry of Culture and Information (decree 265 of 28.08.1989). | UNESCO |
| Reserve Museum includes architectural complex of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi mausoleum, archaeological remains of the medieval town of Yasi within the boundaries of the buffer zone and the adjacent secondary monuments. | UNESCO |
| The Ministry of Culture is planning to revise and update the long-term management plan for the Mausoleum, which will address safeguarding, research, conservation, monitoring, maintenance, education and training, visitor controls, raising of public awareness, and risk preparedness. | UNESCO |