Information
- Location
- Түркістан облысы, Turkistan city
- Period
- 1601 – 1700
- Category
- Historical and cultural monuments of republican significance
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Kind
- Monuments of urban planning and architecture
Sources
- Альбом историко-культурных объектов и мест всеобщего паломничества Казахстана. – Астана: КазНИИК, 2018. – 496 стр.
Description
The building is a small construction with a square in terms of space.
The dimensions of the mausoleum are 9x9 m. The main facade of the mausoleum is made in the form of a portal. The facades are decorated with geometric patterns. The entrance to the mausoleum is located in the southeastern wall of the building.
The crypt itself is similar to the upper part of the mausoleum: four lancet arches support a flat vault. The floor of the building is paved with square bricks. The surviving part of the mausoleum was reconstructed in 2000. According to experts, the constructive techniques used in the construction of the mausoleum reflect the type of tomb structures common in the region. The width of the walls sometimes reaches 1.2 m, which suggests that initially the building had a rather powerful ceiling of a tent or dome shape. The mausoleum has survived to our times in ruins.
It is believed that a major political figure of the late medieval period of the Kazakh Khanate, Esim Khan, was buried in the mausoleum. He was one of the prominent political figures of the Kazakh Khanate in the second half of 16th and the first half of the 17th cc. The code of laws of adat in the traditional Kazakh society, called “Ecim khannyn eski zholy” – “The old path of Esim Khan”. The mausoleum is an object of active pilgrimage.