Erdenedalai
Erdenedalai ( Mongolian Эрдэнэдалай ) is a city and seat of the district administration in the district of the same name ( Sum ) in the Mongolian province ( Aimag ) Dund-Gobi .
location and size
The population of the 7351 km² district was 6677 people in 2007, of which 2058 lived in Erdenedalai. This made the city the second largest town of the aimag after the aimag capital Mandalgobi .
Erdenedalai is located in an arid , flat landscape, 109 km west of Mandalgobi in the western part of the Aimag Dund-Gobi.
Sights and infrastructure
The outstanding attraction of the place is the monastery Gimpil Dardschaalan Khiid , which was built towards the end of the 18th century and as one of the very few monasteries or temples in Mongolia survived the anti-Buddhist riots and destruction unscathed by the then party and government leader Chorloogiin Choibalsan in 1937 . After 1937 the monastery, in which up to 500 monks had lived at times, served as a warehouse, but the buildings remained untouched. Since 1990 it has been used as a monastery or temple again, and in 1992 it was even visited by the Dalai Lama .
In Erdenedalai there are relatively good shopping opportunities in the main street for Mongolian standards. A significant part of the population traditionally lives in yurts , while stone and wooden houses predominate in the city center. Not far from the district administration building, two parks with a memorial were created, which are maintained with considerable effort in the semi-desert-like climate. The city has various schools, a kindergarten, a hotel and a gas station.
The provincial capital Mandalgobi and the neighboring Sums can be reached via slopes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Werner Elstner: Mongolia. Berlin 1993, p. 162.
- ↑ Michael Kohn: Mongolia. London 2008, p. 197.
Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ' N , 104 ° 57' E