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Post by jspiers on Mar 9, 2009 23:26:17 GMT -5
BEIJING, March 10 -- Tuyugou is not a name that is familiar to tourists. Visitors to the popular city of Turpan are often ignorant of this small place tucked in a mountain valley some 50 km away. However, Tuyugou has a rich religious history that few other places in China can match. Named after the Uygur word tuyuq or "not passable", Tuyugou is a township in Shanshan county of Turpan prefecture. The Mazar village or "Tomb Village", the center of Tuyugou, lies in a valley of the Mountain of Fire (Huoyan Shan). Muslims from all over Xinjiang, Northwest China's Gansu province and Ningxia Hui autonomous region, and even other countries like Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Turkey come here to visit the Al-Sahab Kahfi Mazar or "tomb of saints in the cave". news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/10/content_10980835.htm
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