Mausoleum of Baba Tukty Aziz
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Mausoleum of Baba Tukty Aziz

It is located in Zhylybulak near Kumkent aul of Suzak district of South Kazakhstan region.Baba Tukty Shashty Aziz is a popular folklore and mythological figure in Kazakh folklore, a great hero.

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It is located in Zhylybulak near Kumkent aul of Suzak district of South Kazakhstan region.Baba Tukty Shashty Aziz is a popular folklore and mythological figure in Kazakh folklore, a great hero. At first, shamans who believed in the Blue God in the Sahara worshiped him as a ghost and later as a saint among Muslims.The mausoleum in the cemetery of the saint is made of burnt bricks. The mausoleum has a portal-dome, single-chamber construction. The quadrangle is surrounded by a convex dome mounted on a round neck. The façade is flat, unadorned, shallow and sloping, with an entrance in the middle, a small embossed tower on the double threshold. In the internal structure of the square house there are arches along the core, the dome rests on this arched roof. In the center of the mausoleum there is a brick tombstone. Baba marries a hairy haired saint. When she broke her contract, the fairy said, “You have a six-month-old baby. I will leave him in a place called Kumkent, look for him! ” flies into the sky. Baba came to the place where the hairy Aziz fairy told, found a baby in a coffin and named him "Edige".

Reference: Kazakhstan sacred objects
of whole national importance. – Astana: Foliant, 2017. –177-179
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