Akhun Mosque is located 40 km south-west of Beineu aul, Beineu district, Mangistau region. The largest architectural monument of the Mangistau region, built in the XIX century. The mosque was built by order of the rich local Akbota Zhemenei.The plan of the mosque is a 22-room rectangular building, built on the lower part of a one-story wall without a foundation, with 28 domes removed from the roof. The mosque is built of bricks, the walls are covered with limestone on the outside, the inner walls are plastered. In the middle of the building there are 4 large halls, rooms with beams and domed roofs along the perimeter are lined up with false columns protruding from the walls.Until 1928, the Korkembay Mosque was called an educational institution, where children of the country were taught Islam. Well-known akhuns and ishans - Abdullah hazrat, Shaudir ishan, Karakalpak Matkarim, etc. taught in the mosque. Bekturlyuli Korkembay Akhun was persecuted by the Bolsheviks, disbanded his disciples, closed his mosque and moved to Tajikistan. It is unknown at this time what year he died and where he was buried.
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