Tips :The mosque is closed during praying time

It is said the original place of the mosque was once a graveyard for kingdom out of the city.

in 1442, a ruller of Kashgar Silk Road tour named Saksiz Mirza built this mosque for the first time as a very small structure. This mosque was expended for many times by local people, rulers and rich people. It was expended for the last time in 1873 by Yakup Bag, a powerfull ruller of Kashgar and The present Id Kah Mosque was built with today's scale and style.

The Id Kah Mosque is located on the central square in Kashgar City, Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region. As the biggest mosque in China, it is a group of old Islamic constructions with strong ethnic style and religious features.

The Id Kah Mosque is located on the central square in Kashgar City, Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region China tour deals . As the biggest mosque in China, it is a group of old Islamic constructions with strong ethnic style and religious features.

Id Kah (correctly Heit Kah in Uighur language ), Heit means festival, Kah means ocasion, so Heit Kah means ocasion of the festival. Local Uighur people celebrate their festivals in front of this mosque. Uighur people have three big festivals like Roza Heit (Ramadan festival), Kurban Heit (animal secrificing festival) and Noruz Bairimi (Uighur new year festival). Local people celebrate All these festivals on the square of the mosque all ,the time. That is why local people named this mosque as Heit Kah.

This mosque popular China travel package occupies an area of more than 16,800 square meters and consists of courtyard, the Hall of Prayer, and the gate tower and as well as some other attached structures.

Usually about 5000 people pray five times everyday. On every Friday about 10000 people attend praying. On festival time about 50000 people attend praying at the same time, At prayer time, the mosque, the square, the streets and the roads all around are full of piously kneeling Muslims.. Just after praying thousand and thousand people get together on the square in front of the Id Kah Mosque and start the traditional Uighur dance SAMA, by this way, they show their happiness, with no sign of exhaustion.

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