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Mausoleum (kumbez) Tekturmas is an architectural monument of the XIV-XV century, located on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Taraz on the right bank of the Talas River on the top of the Tekturmas hill. The architect and builder of the mausoleum is unknown. Among local people, the mausoleum is considered to be the burial place of the holy (aulie) Sultan-Makhmud-Khan.

Architecture
The building was destroyed. From the photographs of the 1890, the mausoleum was a domed, quadrangular construction of burnt brick. The corners of the mausoleum ended with pilasters; there were traces of plaster on the walls. From the decorative part of the mausoleum, only one ornamented terracotta tile was found, according to which archaeologist Mikhail Masson suggested that the mausoleum was erected in the XV century.

History
At the end of the XIX century, the mausoleum was studied by V. A. Kallaur, in 1939-1940 examined by G.I. Patcevich. In the multi-temporal necropolis surrounding the mausoleum, Ossuary burials of Zoroastrians for the storage of skeletal remains, medieval burials of Christians and Muslims were revealed.

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