Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi
Also known as Mausolée de Khoja Ahmad Yasawi, Mausolee de Khoja Ahmed Yasavi, Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Қожа Ахмет Ясауи кесенесі
Category
Cultural
Inscribed under criteria (i), (iii), (iv).
Region
Asia and the Pacific
Kazakhstan
Inscribed
2003
List reference
1103
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Location
Where it sits, and what is around it
Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi is in Turkistan. The nearest other World Heritage site is Tashkent Modernist Architecture, about 240 km away.
Nearest towns and cities
- Turkistan · about 97,000 peopleat the site
- Kentau · about 57,000 peopleabout 30 km north-east
- Arys · about 43,000 peopleabout 100 km south-east
- Shymkent · about 465,000 peopleabout 150 km south-east
- Shieli · about 30,000 peopleabout 160 km north-west
- Qaratau · about 38,000 peopleabout 180 km east
Nearby World Heritage sites
The nearest neighbours, as the crow flies
UzbekistanCultural235 km away
UzbekistanCultural417 km away
TajikistanCultural425 km away
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, UzbekistanCultural445 km away
KyrgyzstanCultural484 km away
Further resources
The official record, while our own profile is in hand
The official record
- World Heritage Centre page for this sitewhc.unesco.org
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