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Kishlak burial hill Madjrum.
Tours to settlement of Madjrum.
“I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers”
Langston Hughes.
Trip from Tashkent to Madjrum.
The kishlak a burial hill Madjrum is in the territory of the Nuratau reserve, in Nuratau mountains (Farish district of the Jizzakh region), in 300 meters above a water-mill, in 50 - 60 meters from the left coast. Behind one of turns before you the surrealistic picture will appear: a mountain slope with the fortresses thrown with stone houses.
Walls were showered and therefore houses are similar to ancient ruins of the fantastic city. It is an old kishlak a burial hill Madjrum. The population of mountain settlements lived in the strengthened kishlaks located in the depth of the gorge on the rocky remote mountain where one narrow track that enemies nomads could not take them unawares usually conducted until recently.
Madjrum inhabitants left a barrow already in the nineties of the XIXth century when after accession of Central Asia to Russia attacks of nomads stopped. At some distance from an old kishlak, is closer to the river of a wreck of the Madjrum mosque.
Once geologists behind the southern Nuratau mountains found gold, and charcoal which was prepared for melting mines from Archie. Today it is difficult to believe in it - on hillsides only the grass and a rare bush grow.
Around there is no tree left in their all Nuratau mountains slightly more than one hundred remained. Probably, therefore built the mosque here. Its walls remained almost on all height. In the mosque and before it wooden columns, beams of overlappings lie.
Fortunately for historical and cultural monuments, among locals the taboo on use of the objects lying in mausoleums, mosques, the holy sites remained. The local population, despite the need for wood, does not use wooden parts of the mosque for the needs as the similar act is considered a sin.
These materials can be used only for the mosque or the mausoleum.
Authority
Elmira Aleinikova. https://mytashkent.uz/2012/05/25/madzherumskaya-biota-ili-instruktsiya-dlya-nachinayushhego-palomnika/
Photos
Alexander Petrov.