2007年2月9日 星期五

Islamic King Tombs

Located 2 km south of Qomul City, it is the tombs for the burial of Islamic kings of Qomul in the Qing Dynasty. Since the title of Islamic king was firstly granted by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty in 1697, 233 years had passed by 1930 when the title of Islamic King was granted to the last king by the government of Republic of China. During this period, nine kings were granted the title of Islamic King. The most outstanding one of the tombs is the tomb of Boxier, the seventh Islamic king. West of the gate of the tomb is a rectangle structure, 14 meters high, 15 meters wide and 79 meters deep. The surface of the structure is decorated with the ceramic tiles, on which blue flowers and propitious clouds were painted, and the dome is covered with green colored glaze (the former gourd-shaped green spire is not kept to this day). The inner wall of the dome-shaped tomb is adorned with the blue flowers pattern against the white bottom. There are cylinders standing at the every foursquare of arched door, ascending steps inside the western cylinders of main entrance, which reach the top of the tomb. Here the princes and son of Beshir were also buried, the eighth Islamic king, Mehmut and his princess. The southern of dome-shaped tomb, there were ever standing five wood-pavilions dome-shaped tombs arranging from east to west, which only two constructions remain today. To the east there are the dome-shaped tombs of the last Islamic king Samhusot and his wife, the others are the Islamic kings and their descants through the ages. To west there is a grand mosque, which can provide over 3000 persons at prayer and was built in the time of the fourth Islamic king (who was on the throne from1740-1766) as it is said. The magnificent and solemn architecture is the largest mosque in Qomul area.

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