Zhambyl region is located 37 km from Merke district. Chronological period: VII-VIII centuries.Merke Turkic Horde and Jaisan Temple are cultural and ritual complexes of medieval Turks. The group of complex monuments in this area - burial places - burial mounds, ceremonial fences around the mounds, stone sculptures, balbal stones, rock paintings and tribal symbols and carvings found on the rocks. The main part of the monuments is based on one rule, depending on their location. That is, while the burial structures are located in the western part of the complex, the ceremonial structures are concentrated in the eastern part of the complex. Only in rare cases the fences are located in the middle of the mounds or in the western part of the cult complexes. The works of art of the Turks, which are an integral part of the Jaisan temple, are concentrated in the area southwest of the memorial. Such works of art include tribal symbols, petroglyphs, etc., found on stone sculptures and stelae, as well as on rocks. applies.The temple of Merke has long been a unique ritual complex of the Western Turks, located in the Kazakh steppes, and the temple of Jaisan was built a hundred years after the establishment of the Western Turkic khaganate, in the VIII century, when the eastern Turks came to the lands of the western Turkic tribes.
References: Kazakhstan sacred objects
of whole national importance. – Astana: Foliant, 2017. –130-133 pp.
