Emin Minerat

Emin Minerat
Emin minerat (The minerat for Showing Gratitude to Eminhoja) also
called "Sugong minerat" and "The Turpan minerat" by the local Uygur people, is
located 2 kilometerseast of the city of Turpan. Built in 1778,it isthe biggest
minerat in Xinjiang, and has an architectural style all its own.In the shape
of a cone and built of bricks arranged in fifteen patterns of rhombuses,
ripples,varied four-petal flowers, and mountains,the minerat is 37 meters
high and 10 meters in diameter at the base. The minerat has 14 windows
opened in different directions and at different heights and a seventy-one-stepped spiral flight of stairs leading to the top.At the
entrance of the minerat stands a stone tablet erected when the minerat was built, on which is recorded, in Uygur and Chinese,
the reasons for building the minerat. It was built by Turpan prefecture commandant Su Laiman to commemorate and praise his
father Eminhoja who achieved brilliant military success in suppressing the armed rebellion raised by the Jungar aristocrats.Next
to the minerat is the biggest mosque in the Turpan area, and the two form an integral whole. The rectangular mosque has a hall
in its middle and an arched gate with a pointed top.The hall can hold up to one thousand people attending service. During rel-i
gious festivals, crowds of people stream into the mosque and makethe mosque a hive of activity.

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