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Id Kah Mosque

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Biggest islamic center in China

Kashgar, the city of the Silk Road, where they had just caravans skirting, north or south, the fearsome Taklamakan Desert, only a step away from the city. A place where you can spend hours in the square where the Id Kah Mosque lies, with its yellow tiles. Around here people of different ethnic groups converge, nomads who have come to the city to trade, artisans to buy tools, materials ... Some rest, other go up to to the food stalls, there are puppeteers with their wagons, people who form prayer groups, men greeting each other and chatting, and at night they may put a movie on the big screen that is installed on one side, and then everyone squats, gasping from tension or surprise, laughing ...

Chinese movies are similar to those of Bollywood in the mix of action, drama, romance and comedy. And a way it involves people in Chinese culture has the power in this country, and that is not native here. The mosque can be visited, always outside the hours of prayer, but you can find people praying. It has a fresh and relaxing courtyard from the door leading to the square, to what is the mosque itself. It also works as a madrasa (religious school), so it's not uncommon to see students walking by. The interior was not particularly beautiful, but it is the biggest Islamic center and active in China. It was built in the reign of Emperor Zenthong (1436-1449), although its present form it was acquired after successive expansions and constructions, from the sixteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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