The burial-vault is a square room, and the length of each wall is 7.5 m. The 1.85 m high gravestone of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is placed in the centre of the room. It is located in 1500 year-old city of Turkestan in South Kazakhstan.

In this partly unfinished building, Persian master builders experimented with architectural and structural solutions later used in the construction of Samarkand, the capital of the Timurid Empire. Khoja Ahmat Yssawi ( , also spelled Ahmad Yasawi, Ahmet Yasevi, Ahmed Yesevi or Ata Yesevi) (born in Sayram in 1093, and died in 1166 in Hazrat-e Turkestan, both cities now in Kazakhstan), was a Turkic poet and Sufi (Muslim mystic), an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of mystical orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world. Khoja Ahmed Yasawi died in 1166 and the Mausoleum was built in his honor by the Timurid king TimurLane from 1389-1405. He was born in Ispidjab (modern Sayram) in 1093, and spent most of his life in Yasi, dying there in 1166. By age seven, Ahmad Yasawi had already advanced through a series of high spiritual stages and then, under the direction of Arslan Baba, the young Ahmad reached a high level of maturity and slowly began to win fame from every quarter. The graves of wife and son of Yasawi’s son Ibrakhim-Shah are situated in the same room. The room is topped with double dome.

Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (Khawaja or Khwaja (Persian: خواجه pronounced khâje) corresponds to "master", whence Arabic: خواجة khawājah), also spelled as Khawajah Akhmet Yassawi, was the 12th-century head of a regional school of Sufism, a mystic movement in Islam which began in the 9th century. Ahmad Yasawi is part of WikiProject Central Asia, a project to improve all Central Asia-related articles.This includes but is not limited to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang and Central Asian portions of Iran, Pakistan and Russia, region-specific topics, and anything else related to Central Asia. The Path of the Khoja Ahmet Yasawi in Kazakh and Turkish Minstrel Customs Turumbetova Z1*, Kerimbekova B2, Soltanayeva Y3, Daribayev S4, Adilzhan A5 1*Senior Lecturer, Department of Philology, Suleyman Demirel University, Karasai district, the Republic of Kazakhstan 2Assistant professor SDU, Head of the Research laboratories “Study of the Art of Speech”, Department of Philology, … He is widely revered in Central Asia and the Turkic-speakingworld for popularizing Sufism, which sustained the diffusi… The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur (Tamerlane), from 1389 to 1405. At age seven, when he was orphaned by the loss of his father Sheykh Ibrahim, Yasawi was raised by another spiritual father, Arslan Baba.