The Muslim cemetery «Karaotkel» as the sacred geography object of Nur-Sultan

Abstract

In 2016, the patriotic act «Mangilik El» was implemented, and also in 2017, for the
specification of this ideological message by profile nationwide programs, which include the creation
of a specialized research center «Sacral Kazakhstan», research and analytical activity began to
understand and the definition of objects that could meet the requirements in the nomination - to
be sacred objects.
The research center «Sacral Kazakhstan», which belongs to state research institutions, has
developed lists of sacred objects, which include cultural and historical places of Kazakhstan
sanctuary of national and regional significance.
In January 2018, SRC «Sacral Kazakhstan» published the first series of books, where the objects
were divided into two categories: «The Kazakhstan sacred objects of whole national importance»
and «The Kazakhstan sacred objects of regional importance». In the first edition, the nationwide
list included 185 objects, using the principle of equal representation from each region; 500 objects
that did not pass this selection, but which were also nominated for the nationwide, were added
to the regional list. These books are an invaluable information guide to the natural and historical
monuments of the native land.
In this article, using the example of a nationwide sacred capital object, real practices of pilgrimage
to the Muslim cemetery «Karaotkel» will be recorded, as well as schemes of analysis will be
studied who is the memory actor of this cemetery, which is included in the list of sacred objects of
the city of Astana / Nur- Sultan. This concept of analysis in the future can be approved in research
on the dissertation work «The peculiarities of memory transnational routes: cultural geography
of Northern Kazakhstan».