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Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

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View of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi in Turkestan, Kazakhstan.

The Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Яссауи кесенесі, Qoja Axmet Yassawï kesenesi) is an unfinished mausoleum in the city of Turkestan, in southern Kazakhstan. The structure was commissioned in 1389 by Timur, who ruled the area as part of the expansive Mongol Empire, to replace a smaller 12th-century mausoleum of the famous Turkic poet and Sufi mystic,[2] Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166). However, construction was halted with the death of Timur in 1405.[3]

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