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Tue, 10/28/2008 - 16:51
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Restoration of the Yskakbab mausoleum ended
Shymkent, 28 October 2008, (Khabar) - Restoration of the Yskakbab mausoleum finished in the Suzak district in South Kazakhstan. The restoration of the Yskakbab mausoleum and the madrasah under the mausoleum that is situated in the Suzak district in South Kazakhstan has been finished.
The unique ancient buildings were able to withstand the test of time and the Suzak climate and only started to decay during recent years. A third of the walls of the madrasah and the central portal of the mausoleum needed serious reconstruction work. Yskakbab over whose grave, an elegant oriental tomb was
built, lived in the 9th century but still people honour him because he tried
to spread the word of Islam among the nomads not with power and arms but
through his own examples and beliefs.
Abdesh Tashmuratuly, keeper of Yskakbab mausoleum:
- Yskakbab came from Egypt which at that time was the centre of
enlightenment. He was the first to bring Islam to the nomads. Yskakbab is
the seventh child of Azret Ali who was the son-in-law of the prophet
Muhammad and an ancestor of Khodzha Akhmed Yassaui.
The money for the restoration of the mausoleum and madrasah amounting to 54
million tenge was allocated under the "Cultural heritage" programme. Also,
Suzak residents collected the money themselves for the building of monuments
to two great public figures - Dzhanybek and Kerei khan, who established the
Kazakh khanate over 5 centuries ago but whose pictures, unfortunately, were
lost, .
Amanzhol Naimanbai, sculptor:
- Due to the fact that nobody knows what they looked like it would not be
considered a breach of etiquette to make a symbolic form and create an
image.
Two stylized figures ascend a top shanyrak - the symbol of the nation and
the state. The monument is surrounded by pictures of ancient cave paintings,
winged horses and starlings which had nested on a sheep's back which is the
symbol of the peaceful coexistence of all living things in the Kazakh
steppe.
The unique ancient buildings were able to withstand the test of time and the Suzak climate and only started to decay during recent years. A third of the walls of the madrasah and the central portal of the mausoleum needed serious reconstruction work. Yskakbab over whose grave, an elegant oriental tomb was
built, lived in the 9th century but still people honour him because he tried
to spread the word of Islam among the nomads not with power and arms but
through his own examples and beliefs.
Abdesh Tashmuratuly, keeper of Yskakbab mausoleum:
- Yskakbab came from Egypt which at that time was the centre of
enlightenment. He was the first to bring Islam to the nomads. Yskakbab is
the seventh child of Azret Ali who was the son-in-law of the prophet
Muhammad and an ancestor of Khodzha Akhmed Yassaui.
The money for the restoration of the mausoleum and madrasah amounting to 54
million tenge was allocated under the "Cultural heritage" programme. Also,
Suzak residents collected the money themselves for the building of monuments
to two great public figures - Dzhanybek and Kerei khan, who established the
Kazakh khanate over 5 centuries ago but whose pictures, unfortunately, were
lost, .
Amanzhol Naimanbai, sculptor:
- Due to the fact that nobody knows what they looked like it would not be
considered a breach of etiquette to make a symbolic form and create an
image.
Two stylized figures ascend a top shanyrak - the symbol of the nation and
the state. The monument is surrounded by pictures of ancient cave paintings,
winged horses and starlings which had nested on a sheep's back which is the
symbol of the peaceful coexistence of all living things in the Kazakh
steppe.
