| Imin Minaret
Emin Tower Its total name "The Tower for
showing Gratitude to Eminhoj a ", another name "Sugong Tower", local
Uygur people also called it "Turpan Tower",
lies in 2 kilometers' place which is in the east
of Turpan . This tower was built in 1778, is the
remained biggest ancient towers in Xinjiang, and
has architecture style all his own.
This tower is cylinder whose top is thick and
underpart is thin, is 37 meters high, the bottom
perimeter is 10 meters. The tower was built with
brick with rhombuses ? ripples, varied four-petal
flowers, mountains, etc 15 patterns. Has 14 windows
opened in different height and different directions
in tower ,along the 71-stepped spiral flight of
stairs leading to the top.
There are a stone tablet which was put during
building time at the entrance of the tower, narrated
reason of building the tower with Uygur characters?
Chinese character respectively. The Minaret was
built by Turpan shire king to commemorate and
praise his father Eminhoja who achieved brilliant
military success in suppressing the armed rebellion
raised by the Junggar rebellion aristocrates.
There is the biggest mosque below the Emin Tower
in Turpan, harmonized with the ancient tower.
The mosque is rectangle, an arched gate with a
pointed top. During religious festivals, crowds
of people stream into the mosque and make the
mosque a hive of activity.
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