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Samples
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Mosque and places of pilgrimage on the rock |
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Alpine
meadows around the village
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Mosque
and places of pilgrimage on the rock |
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Mosque and places of pilgrimage on the rock |
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Alpine
meadows around the village
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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.
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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). |