Mausoleums in the village of Sozak

Karabura Mausoleum.

Mausoleums in the village of Sozak.

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow”

Anita Desai.

A trip from Shymkent to Sozak.

The mausoleum of Karabura is located in the administrative center of the Sozak rural district in the village of Sozak in the Sozak district of the Turkestan region in the southeastern part of the Sozak settlement. A large number of historical and cultural monuments are concentrated in the northernmost region of the Turkestan region - Suzak, which includes vast territories of semi-deserts located from the northern slopes of the Karatau mountains to the Betpak-Dala desert.
On the territory of the region, 36 architectural monuments are recorded, most of them in the village of Suzak. Most of the sites have been little studied due to their remoteness. The mausoleum of Karabour was built in 1997 of white brick and consists of two rooms.
The upper part
The mausoleum is built of clay and has 4 windows. Here is the grave of Kurban Ata. Nearby are the memorial marble slabs of Muhammad, Arystan Baba, Khoja Akhmet Yassaui, Yskak Baba (Baba ata), Baba Tukti Shashty Aziz.
Aknazar-khan, Belgibai-kazhy, Shilmembet bi, Kultas bi, Kozhamkul gulama, Daulet-Karabura batyr, Shahasum-akhun and others are buried behind the old mausoleum. The total area of the architectural complex is 240 square meters, the height of the mausoleum is 17 meters.
The door is facing the West, towards the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmet Yassaui. To the left of the mausoleum there is a monument to a camel. Karabura-awliye was an associate of the legendary Khoja Ahmed Yassaui, who, before his death, instructed that Karabura should bury him.
He lived in the foothills of Karatau, possessed magical powers, with one glance he could stop the most frisky stallion at a gallop and make him turn back the river.
Geographic coordinates of the mausoleum of Karabura: N44 ° 08'08.09 "E68 ° 28'12.29"

Mausoleum and architectural complex of Karabura.