French: Mausolée de Khoja Ahmad Yasawi
The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is a World Heritage site in Kazakhstan defined by the UNESCO in 2003 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing location.
It is on position 887 (964, 712) in our monthly survey..

"The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur (Tamerlane), from 1389 to 1405. In this partly unfinished building, Persian master builders experimented with architectural and structural solutions later used in the construction of Samarkand, the capital of the Timurid Empire. Today, it is one of the largest and best-preserved constructions of the Timurid period."
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