Uyghur Cemetery: Picture of the Week
A Mud-Brick Uyghur Cemetery
This cemetery, located in the north western portion of Kashgar, is one of the biggest Uyghur cemeteries in Xinjiang. Up until recently people were still being buried in these mud and brick built graves beside the Abah Khojah Mausoleum. The markings on these graves are not as ornate as those on a Chinese grave but the designs are much more unique and visually pleasing.
About a kilometer north of my city is a huge cemetery boasting quite a few Han and Uyghur graves that I’ve visited many times. I’ll have to write about it sometime in the future because it really is interesting to see the differences in the two types of graves when they are side-by-side. I’d put that picture up as a “Picture of the Week”, but they just aren’t as picturesque as these Kashgar graves.
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Josh
Urumqi
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Fred
Nice photo. Is that in Kashgar?
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