Jeyrakh-Assin Reserve
Jeyrakh-Assin Reserve

The Jeyrakh-Assin historical, architectural and natural museum-reserve is located within the boundaries of the Jeyrakh district of the Republic of Ingushetia on the northern slopes of the foothills of the Central part of the Greater Caucasus Range. The reserve was established on June 2, 1988. The area of the reserve is slightly more than 627 square kilometers. The activity of the reserve is aimed at ensuring the preservation, restoration and study of territorial complexes of cultural and natural heritage, material and spiritual values in their traditional historical (cultural and natural) environment. On the territory of the museum-reserve there are 122 ancient architectural complexes, including more than 2,670 objects of cultural significance, including defensive and residential towers, burial crypts, Christian and pagan sanctuaries and temples. The oldest buildings of the megalithic type belong to the middle of the second millennium BC. Every year, significant scientific discoveries are made on the territory of the reserve, new objects are identified, archaeological expeditions are constantly working, scientists from all over the world come. Since 1996, the reserve has been a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Significant value in the reserve is given to work on creating conditions for the development of organized tourism, its educational and service component.

Within the framework of the work plan-monitoring of the state of cultural heritage objects located in the territory of the Dzheyrakh district of the Republic of Ingushetia, the acting director of the Dzheyrakh-Assin State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve, Ahmedkhan Sampiyev, bypassed the temple-sanctuary "Myat-Sel".

The temple-sanctuary "Mit-Sel" - a rectangular building, is located on the site of Table Mountain at an altitude of about 3000 meters. It's a conventional building. In terms of rectangle; east and west walls of 3.59 m, north and south walls of 6.98 m, height to skate 4.92 m, height of longitudinal walls to the first tiles of 1.77 m. The features of the sanctuary are two doors located in the western east walls; the width of the doors is 0.70 m, the height is 1.80 m. One narrow window above the doors. The longitudinal walls are slightly tilted inward. The roof is gabled, consists of twelve steps. This monument in the past was revered by the local population of the surrounding areas.

On the mountain Myat Loam, in addition to the described, there were two more temples-sanctuaries, built, according to many historians, in the XII-XV centuries. One of the sanctuaries - "Suson-Dyala" ("Protector of noble women") - was located on the northern part, and the other "Myattyr-Dyala" ("Local God") was located on the eastern side of the mountain, to this day both monuments are destroyed. And Myatseli is located on the southern site of the mountain.

During the visual inspection, despite the fact that the monument has been preserved to the full height, its condition can be assessed, most likely, as unsatisfactory: the masonry of the walls is dissected by cracks, the rock base is blurred and weathered, the extension of the masonry stones outwards is traced. Repair and restoration work is required.

On this fact, acts of inspection of the object (with the attachment of photo materials) will be drawn up and sent to the Committee of State Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia.

The temple-sanctuary "Miat-Sel" is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance, is under the jurisdiction and boundaries of the territory of the Dzheyrah-Assinsk State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve, is subject to state protection.

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