THE SAODDAT MAUSOLEE

The entire mausoleums gathered around that of Saoddat, or «invincible», was built between the th and th centuries. A central walkway, originally 200 m long, leads to the portal of the lavishly complex decorated with blue ceramics with geometric motifs. Left, a mosque; on the right, in a crypt, lies the tomb of the Emir Hussein, the fifth descendant of the Prophet. Today, there are approximately metres of the original aisle bordered by the main buildings. By a fly of stairs we come to the roof of the right-hand mausoleum, which allows to contemplate the whole of a height, and to note the remains of the old tombs as well as some graves at the place where once the largest necropolis in Central Asia.