Tag: Religion
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Rabat Abdullah Khan Mosque
Rabat Abdullah Khan Mosque, a historical and architectural monument of the Shaybanid era, is located at the northern foot of the Suleiman Mountain.
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“Zero Milestone”: At the foot of Suleiman Mountain
The square at the foot of Suleiman Mountain’s north face has not always been the open and lively place it is today. Until the 1970s, the site of the modern-day museum, fountain and plaza was a very ordinary “mahalla,” a residential block with mud-brick houses.
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Russian Orthodox Church
St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral is the only remnant of Russian Orthodox architecture in Osh and was the central landmark around which the Slavic community and the so-called “new city” began to form in Osh in the late 19th century.
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Rock Carvings
Petroglyphs, visual remnants of Osh’s millennia-old history, can be found almost everywhere on Suleiman Mountain. They are most numerous on the southern, eastern, southeastern and southwestern slopes of all five peaks. Some of them are located in accessible areas, others in caves and grottoes. According to a conservative estimate, there are about 400 rock carvings…
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Hujra of Babur, the Founder of the Mughal Empire
The most famous historical monument on Suleiman Mountain is the hujra of Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Hindustan Peninsula. In Islamic tradition, a hujra is a small cell or room in a madrasah where pilgrims prayed and rested.
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Peaks and Caves of Suleiman Mountain
Suleiman Mountain is a five-headed limestone remnant that measures 1140 meters long by 569 meters wide, located at an altitude of over 1000 meters above sea level in the southeastern part of the Fergana Valley, in the historic center of Osh.
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Museum in Rushan Cave
On a hot July day in 1978, the new Historical and Local History Museum of Osh, housed within a winding complex of 13 caves and with an exhibition area of 752 square metres, was opened on Suleiman Mountain!
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The beginning: Osh settlement
In 1967, Elena Druzhinina, the Head of the Pre-Soviet History Department of the Osh Regional Local History Museum, found fragments of ceramics identical in origin and decoration to those of the Chust culture on the southern slope of Suleiman Mountain. This archaeological find marks the beginning of the 3,000-year-old history of Osh. At the time,…
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Gate of Fire at Suleiman Mountain
Ancient Osh with its majestic Suleiman Mountain has a magic power, attracting adherents of various religions and beliefs, serving as a place of pilgrimage for dervishes and wandering believers of many faiths.
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Madrasah of Khalmurzay and Mukhammedbay Turk
Today, in the square between Navoi, Kurmanjan Datka and Lenin Streets, it is difficult to find the outlines of the old quarter of Osh. It lost its historical contours in the 1960s, when a rapid reconstruction began.
