Abdul-Aziz Baba Mausoleum

Kazakhstan


The occupant of the three-domed Abdul-Aziz Baba Mausoleum is believed to have been a leader of the Arabic forces that brought Islam to the Sayram area in AD 766. Pilgrims come here for help in averting the ‘evil eye’.


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