A publicist told about the ancient city of Sarakhs in present-day Turkmenistan

Serdar Akiniyazov, a well-known art publicist, spoke about the cultural and historical monuments, crafts and other interesting features of the ancient city of Sarakhs. This settlement was the largest trade center located on the Great Silk Road, connecting the countries of the West and the East.

Sarakhs had a special fame during the period of 10-12 centuries, when it was a part of the Turkmen state of the Great Seljuks. The publicist focused his attention on the art of the Sarakh master builders, who created a unique school of architecture known throughout the world.

The mausoleum of the Turkmen saint, popularly called Sarakhs Baba, is among the landmark architectural monuments that have survived to this day. Akiniyazov told about the first descriptions of the mausoleum by Europeans and emphasized its original architecture, combining simplicity, harmony of proportions and compositional purity of the structure. It is not by chance that the Sarakhs-Baba mausoleum is included in the list of the most outstanding examples of medieval architecture of Turkmenistan.

Source: centralasia.news

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