This mosque was built by Beket-Ata in the place of seasonal migrations to teach children and for passing travellers to rest and to make a pilgrimage. Currently, the Beket-Ata Mosque consists of two buildings: a guest house and the mosque itself. Pilgrims first enter a lodging room located in the western part of the necropolis, then they walk the path in the centre of the necropolis, heading towards the mosque. On a plate at the mosque there is an inscription ‘The mosque of batyr who started liberation struggle against the Kalmyks, educator, rare in occurrence, legendary Pir Becket-Ata Myrzagululy!’
The underground mosque is cut in a solid of the rocky cape. The main room of the mosque is round (diameter about 4.5 m). The ceiling has a flat dome shape. The front doorway is in the south-eastern side. The mosque consists of four premises. In general the interior mimics the Kazakh yurt. The entrance doorway leads to the central room, prayer hall of round shape with diameter of about 5 m. The walls of the premises are smoothly hewn and have no decorative elements, except for lighting niches. Next to the mosque there is a spring. Locals say that this water has healing properties. Looking like a well from aside this spring flows incessantly throughout the year. Around the mosque there is a large necropolis. To preserve historical and cultural values128 monuments in the necropolis were included in the governmental list. There are tribal characters applied by different methods, images of weapons and animals on the monuments.
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