Chess Fasil

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Schach Fasil ( Kyrgyz Шах Фазил , after the English legend Shakh Fazil ) is an archaeological site in Kyrgyzstan . It is a sacred place for Muslims and the destination of annual pilgrimages.

location

The site is located in western Kyrgyzstan on the eastern outskirts of the village of Gulistan (also called Safed-Bulan) in the Ala-Buka district of the Jalalabat region near the border with Uzbekistan at the foot of the Archa-Mazar mountain.

description

The archaeological architectural complex Schach Fasil comprises several components:

  • the holy mountain Archa Mazar with the Alamberdar mausoleum from the 19th century and a hermitage,
  • the site of a massacre of 2,700 Islamic warriors,
  • stone phalluses protruding vertically from the earth and
  • the actual Schach-Fasil complex with the Schach-Fasil mausoleum from the 11th century and two mausoleums from the 19th century.

The heart of the complex is the Schach-Fasil-Mausoleum. Inscriptions in Kufic script inside the mausoleum identify it as the burial place of a member of the Qarakhanid dynasty , which ruled Central Asia in the 11th and 12th centuries. The architecture of the mausoleum differs from other well-known buildings from the Karakhanid period.

World Heritage candidate

From 2001 to 2010, Schach Fasil was on the tentative list of Kyrgyzstan as an individual proposal for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage . After that, the site was transferred to the serial proposal sites of the Silk Roads in Kyrgyzstan .

literature

  • Vladimir N. Nastich: A New Glance at the Attribution of Shakh Fazil (Ferghana) . In: Āl al-Bayt University (Ed.): Islamic Art Resources in Central Asia and Eastern and Central Europe. Proceedings of the Fifth International Seminar for Islamic Art and Architecture . Mafraq 2000, p. 45-49 ( academia.edu ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Shakh-Fazil. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, archived from the original ; accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed October 9, 2019 .

Coordinates: 41 ° 25 ′ 43.5 ″  N , 71 ° 39 ′ 32.7 ″  E