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Green Mosque - Turpan history very briefly and selectively
Turpan is sited at a very important position on the Silk Road
and the settlement's history goes back more than two
thousand years.
The Buddhist religion and traditions came from India
and later, between 7th and 9th century the Muslim
influence spread in Turpan and much of the sorrounding
districts especially in the Xinjiang Province.
The Qing Dynasty conquered this largely Muslim region in
the 1750s by defeating the Mongols and the Uyghurs with
their superior weaponry in a series of battles.
As conquerors, they ruled the local population with a
light hand and were tolerant of the Muslim religion.
The Green Mosque was built during the reign of
the Qing Emperor Qianlong (1735-1796).
The arid landscape of southern Xinjiang has long
been connected to both East Asia and West Asia
by historical trade routes such as the Silk Route
and the land around these crossroads became the
location for most of the Uyghur
Islamic structures in Xinjiang.
The area has long served as a conduit for
cultural exchange between different ethnic
and religious groups.
The Emin Minaret, like other Uyghur mosques
and minarets, reflects this in its combination
of traditional Islamic features and
local Uyghur building traditions.
For a more information about
Turfan see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turfan)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, November 2007.
All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License
(see
Copyrights for details).
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
This information was correct in November 2007. E. & O.E.
Hui Chin and I joined a conducted bus tour
from Urumchi to visit Turpan.
It was a very interesting trip and full of drama, as
there was many interesting places to visit and there
was also a number of arguments
on the bus about the tickets and
sights to be visited, the sitting arrangements on the
bus and also about the food and the quality and hygene
standard of the restaurants we have visited.
To cap it all of, my camera's battery ran flat, half
way through, our spare battery and another camera sitting
safely back at the hotel in Urumchi (laughing at our
misfortune), but a few weeks later I had even worst news,
when, after returning home, I found out that two of my
new 2Gigabyte SD memory cards, although seemed to work
perfectly at the time, have invisible pictures on them.
The pictures seem to exist alright,
with all around the 200 plus kilobyte
properties and showing as jpeg pictures, but can't be viewed.
I have lost some very interesting, unusual and irreplacable
pictures of Turpan, Urumchi, Bishkek in Kyrgizstan and pictures
of the countrysides of Kyrgizstan and Kazakstan.
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Now altough we were there and had our visual and phisical
experiences, I have to take advantage of using Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia's
resources with our greatful thanks. Author.
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I would like to mention a few things, that was mentioned to us
during our visit to Turpan, but I do not find any mention on
the pages and articles I read before
putting this page together.
Turpan is sited in a basin (Turfan Depression),
at the second deepest hole after the Dead Sea - under
sea level.
(328ft. below sea level).
Turpan is one of the hottest place on earth, due to its
desert location and relative altitude.
Turpan also one of the driest place on earth again due
to it's location and altitude. (This last two points
make it ideal place to grow grapes and other fruit with
the Karez (water) System's help.
Some of Turpan's listed attractions may be 40+ kilometres
away, normally they still will be listed
as Turpan's attraction.
On the way to Turpan from Urumchi our bus stopped at a
fortress, as I lost the many photos I have taken of this
place - as I have explained above, now I can't find any
reference or mention of the place - can somebody help me, please?
Author.
Green Mosque
("http://flickr.com/photos/25182307@N00/918456023.htm")
Green Mosque
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