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Mosque and places of pilgrimage on the rock
Alpine meadows around the village
Mosque and places of pilgrimage on the rock
Mosque and places of pilgrimage on the rock
Alpine meadows around the village
Settlement Lazah
(Gusar area)

WHAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO SEE

The basic sight of settlement is the mosque of construction of the end of XVIII century and a sacred place "Pir Hajih Seid Baba". Inhabitants worship sacred tombs near to the pir. About 100 years ago this pir was in a rock located in the center of the village. Then this pir was transferred to a rocky wall on village edge near the sacred ancient cemetery. As to inhabitants, below the village, on a slope of the Gusarchaj River there is located a very ancient cemetery. There was saved the tombstone split half-and-half with inscriptions, as local residents consider, in Arabian languages. The part of the cemetery is eroded with rains and earth flows.

In radius from 10 up to 20 kms there are many noteworthy excursion objects around the settlement. Excursions and travel can be made on foot or on horses. Excursions, tourist travel and climbing ascensions are spent by skilled instructors of the tourist pension "Suvar" located in one km higher than Lazah along the gorge of the Gusarchaj.

In vicinities of a boarding house the following excursion objects are located:

- Cave "Tsar" (deep, rocky break in the steep wall of Shahdag massive in length up to 800 ì);

- The ancient stone bridge "Gonchy - Muh" across the Gusarchaj River.

- A sacred place (pir) at bottom of lobbies of Shahdag massive.

- Waterfalls on the way to the top of mountain Shahdag (in winter they turning in picturesque Icefalls)

On an opposite slope of the Gusarchaj, against the settlement on a high abrupt hill there were saved remains of the walls of an ancient defensive fortress, in which during attacks and wars inhabitants of the village were hidden. Inhabitants of settlement observe the ancient ceremonies during weddings or other celebrations. Weddings are celebrated separately for men and for women accompanied by national music, when there is an opportunity to invite musicians from the next villages or the regional center. If there is no chance, they use audio records of national lezghin melodies. Weddings are arranged in a courtyard of groom's house for men and in bride's house for women.

National crafts were saved in part. One of the most widespread kinds of lezghins' craft is carpet manufacture. They make "sumakhs" (oriental carpets) - napless carpets with a smooth face sheet and a shaggy wrong side.

It is possible to enjoy national kitchen. During celebrations they bake pies (tskan) with meat and a potato. In a daily life they eat "kutabs" (afar) with greens, meat, entrails. In furnaces - tendirs they bake bread (khizanfah, charavatfah).

There were saved sports lezghin competitions for young men like a struggle "kosa", circulation on a rope. These competitions are organized by the order. There is no museum of ethnographic or regional studies in the habitation.


 

 

 
           
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