Project Description
Not far from the minaret of Kutlug Timur mausoleum is Khorezmshakh Tekesh – one of the few surviving monuments of pre-Mongol Urgench. The people he referred to as Sherepbaba and Kok-Gumbez. At the mausoleum Ile Arslan they constitute one of the ruling necropolis Khorezmian clans.
Horezmshah Tekesh was very odious person. He has managed to unite the vast territory, stretching from the Aral Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south and in the east from the Pamirs to the Iranian plateau to the west. AT 1172 year, to the throne, he turned for help to his former enemies – Karakitais, who agreed in return for an annual tribute help him dethrone his brother, and then, I have received authority over Khorezm, He also ordered to kill his mother.
Mausoleum Khorezmshakh Tekesh once towered over the city at the height of 30 meters and was a beacon in the desert. weary travelers, Wandering on the hot desert, We saw him from afar, and, in this way, received signal traveling to the end of heavy.
By massiveness and artistic expression, this monument is often compared to another masterpiece of the XII century. – mavzoleem Sultan Sandzhara in Merwe. Both structures towered above ordinary buildings and were TN. "Symbols of power".
