The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi stands in the city of Turkistan in southern Kazakhstan. Timur ordered it built over the tomb of the Sufi poet and teacher Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, who died in the 12th century and whose spiritual order was influential among the Turkic peoples. Construction began in 1389 but was never finished, because Timur died in 1405, and the unfinished state of the entrance portal is still visible. It is one of the largest brick-vaulted structures from the Timurid era, with a great dome, and its builders tested techniques there that were later used in Samarkand. Several Kazakh khans are also buried in it. UNESCO inscribed it in 2003, the first World Heritage Site in Kazakhstan.
Before and after
- 12 August 1399Battle of the Vorskla River
- c. 1400sConstruction of Town Hall of Bremen
- 1400Rise of Renaissance music
- 14th centuryOrigins of Songo Mnara
- 14th centuryConstruction of Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
- from 14th century to 17th centuryRenaissance
- 14th centuryPublication of Water Margin
- from 14th century to 16th centuryRise of Devotio Moderna
- 1400Birth of Johannes Gutenberg
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The era
This moment belongs to the Medieval world (500 CE to 1500 CE), kingdoms, faiths and trade routes.