Langar Ota Mausoleum

The mausoleum stands on a hill in the Langar Ota pilgrimage site, above the village cemetery and a step away from the older Langar Ota mosque. According to the historian Abdusobir Rayimkulov it holds the graves of Sheikh Abulhasan Ishqi, his son Muhammad Sodiq and his grandson Abulhasan Okhund, leaders of the Ishqiya Sufi order; five graves lie inside, three with tombstones.

Built of baked brick in the 15th century, it is often compared in form with the Khoja Ahmad Yasawi mausoleum, and its door and window arches carry fine patterned brickwork. Langar means a shrine or a resting place for travellers, and local tradition tells of a Sufi who settled where his camel lay down; a camel-shaped rock is pointed out nearby.

• A hilltop Sufi shrine in the foothills
• Patterned 15th-century brickwork
• A village pilgrimage site with an older mosque