Baydibek Ata

At the foot of the Karatau Mountains, the burial place of Baydibek Ata is honoured as the resting place of a revered ancestor of Kazakh clans. Local tradition remembers him as a leader whose descendants became associated with tribes of the Senior Zhuz. His wife Domalak Ana is also celebrated in ancestral memory, and her own shrine lies in the same mountain country. The graves bind the landscape to the genealogies and traditions of the people who have lived around it.