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Mausoleum (Kumbez) Tekturmas (kaz. Tekturmas kumbezy) — a monument of architecture in the XIV—XV century, located in the South-Eastern edge of Taraz city on the right Bank of the Talas river on top of a hill Tekturmas. The architector and builder of the mausoleum is unknown. Among the locals, the mausoleum is considered to be the burial place of the Saint (Aulie) Sultan Mahmud Khan.

Architecture
The building was significantly destroyed. According to the photographs of the 1890s, the mausoleum was domed, quadrangular in terms of the construction of burnt bricks. The corners of the mausoleum ended with pilasters, there were traces of plaster on the walls. From the decorative finish of the mausoleum was found only one ornamented terracotta tiles, according to which the archaeologist Michael Masson suggested that the mausoleum was erected in the XV century.

The entrance in the form of an arch faces West to the city of Taraz.

History
At the end of the XIX century the mausoleum was studied by V. A. Kallaur, in 1939-1940 examined by G. I. Patsevich. In nonsimultaneous necropolis around the mausoleum were identified ossuary burial of Zoroastrians storage of skeletal remains, a medieval burial, Christians and Muslims.

In 1982, the mausoleum was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of the Kazakh SSR of Republican significance and taken under state protection.