Ruhy Mosque is the biggest mosque in Central Asia. Twenty
thousand men and woman can pray at the same time. The floor of the mosque is
covered by handmade Turkmen praying mats and an enormous eight-sided carpet
decorates the very centre of the mosque. It consists of two floors – on the
first floor men pray on the second one women. It has four minarets and golden
dome located in the central upper part of the mosque. The height of each
minaret is 91m and the dome is 50m covered with the gold. The mosque is
surrounded with big beautiful fountains and gardens.
There is a
huge underground parking area for about 100 buses and 400 cars. The
total area of this complex is 36ha.
There is a mausoleum of the first President of Turkmenistan
and his family located next to the mosque. At the opposite of the entrance to
the mausoleum one can notice the memorial statute symbolizing the earthquake
when in 1948 thousands of people died. In the centre of the mausoleum the tomb
of Saparmyrat Turkmenbashy surrounded by his family members who died in the
World War II and in 1948 earthquake in Ashgabat.
Nowadays,
different aged people and guests come to see the mausoleum of great leader and
hero of Turkmenistan Saparmyrat Turkmenbashy who will live in the hearts of the
Turkmen people forever as a symbol of humanism.
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