Tughlugh Timur Mazar
1 min readThe Tughlugh Timur Mazar is over 80km from today’s Yining. And the Tughlugh Timur Khan was the seventh generation grandson of Genghis Khanand a legendary Chagatai Khan. In 1346 AD,16-year-old Tughlugh Timur was crowned Mengwuersitan Khan, and then he converted to Islam when he was 18 years old.
In 1352, he forced 160,000 Mongolian tribes to convert to Islam, thereby accelerating the spread of Islam in Xinjiang. Tughlugh Timur unified the Chagatai kingdom in 1360. Since he was the first Mongolian Khan believing in Islam in Xinjiang, he was buried in the eastern suburb of Almaliq according to the Islamic burial custom. The whole mausoleum building is made of bricks, covering an area of 150m2 with two layers being secret corridors and the upper part being pendentive. The grave is concise in form and rich in decoration, and the bilateral couplet-type Arabian scriptures as well as a banner are inlaid by colorful vitreous tiles, and various geometric patterns consisting of green, blue, purple and white are elegant and chic with rich color.
The Tughlugh Timur Mazar is a precious relic for studying the early Islamic architectural style in China.
