Gypjak is a small village about 10 kilometers away from the Turkmen

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

 capital of Aşgabat

Asgabat

Ashgabat or formerly Poltoratsk between 1919–1927) is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia. It has a population of 695,300 , 2009 estimates around 1 million people in Ashgabat, and is situated between the Kara Kum desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range...

. The village is known as the home village of the first President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov

Saparmurat Niyazov

Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov; , was a Turkmen politician who served as President of Turkmenistan from 2 November 1990 until his death in 2006...

. Niyazov, while president, built the Kipchak Mosque

Kipchak Mosque

Gypjak Mosque or Kipchak Mosque is a mosque in the village of Gypjak about 7 kilometres west of the centre of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on the M37 highway....

 and a tomb there for his family. It is in this tomb where Niyazov was buried on December 24, 2006. The Gypjak Mosque, lies across a highway from the rest of the village but is generally open to both male and female visitors for prayer.

The town has one centrally located public school, and several small dukans (or general shops) around the city. There is a post office and an auto part store near the main road.

See also

• Qıpçaq
  Qipçaq
  Qıpçaq is a village and municipality in the Qakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 616....
  
  
• Kipchak people