Qualla: Ruhyýet Palace https://qualla.com/ruhyyet-palace en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/q/9/x/ruhyyet-palace-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ruhyýet Palace https://qualla.com/ruhyyet-palace Ruhyýet Palace: Introduction https://qualla.com/ruhyyet-palace/ Photo credit Central Bank of Turkmenistan, Public domain. A carpet weighing more than a tonne lies inside the Ruhyýet Palace, handwoven by Turkmen artisans in 1998 and stretching 294 square meters across the floor. They named it "President." In a country where the national flag already features five carpet guls, where the carpet is so central to identity that it has its own holiday, this seems almost inevitable. But the carpet is just the beginning of what makes Ashgabat's Palace of Congresses and Arts one of the strangest seats of government on Earth.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/q/9/x/ruhyyet-palace-wp/tq9x-ruhy-et-palace-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ruhyýet Palace: Marble, Bouygues, and Niyazov's Vision https://qualla.com/ruhyyet-palace/ Photo credit Central Bank of Turkmenistan, Public domain. President Saparmurat Niyazov commissioned the palace in 1995, entrusting the French construction giant Bouygues with the project. It was not the company's first assignment in Turkmenistan, nor its last — Bouygues has built much of modern Ashgabat, a city that rose from the rubble...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/q/9/x/ruhyyet-palace-wp/tq9x-ruhy-et-palace-marble-bouygues-and-niyazovs-vision.mp3 0:06 2 full Ruhyýet Palace: Where Power Changes Hands https://qualla.com/ruhyyet-palace/ Photo credit Central Bank of Turkmenistan, Public domain. The Ruhyýet serves as the traditional venue for presidential inaugurations — events that, in Turkmenistan, carry particular weight. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow was inaugurated here for his third term on 17 February 2017. Five years later, on 19 March 2022, his son Serdar Berdimuham...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/q/9/x/ruhyyet-palace-wp/tq9x-ruhy-et-palace-where-power-changes-hands.mp3 0:06 3 full Ruhyýet Palace: Woven Into the Currency https://qualla.com/ruhyyet-palace/ Photo credit Central Bank of Turkmenistan, Public domain. The palace appears on multiple Turkmenistani manat banknotes. The 10,000 manat note from the 2000 series depicts it alongside the Neutrality Monument, while the 20 manat note from the 2009 series pairs it with Gorogly, the hero of Turkmen epics. In a country where architecture an...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/q/9/x/ruhyyet-palace-wp/tq9x-ruhy-et-palace-woven-into-the-currency.mp3 0:06 4 full Ruhyýet Palace: A Capital Like No Other https://qualla.com/ruhyyet-palace/ Photo credit Central Bank of Turkmenistan, Public domain. To approach the Ruhyýet Palace from the air is to see it in context — one white building among hundreds, arrayed along broad empty boulevards in a city of nearly one million people where foot traffic remains curiously scarce. Ashgabat does not invite casual exploration. It perfor...

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