Emin minaret
The Emin Minaret ( Chinese 苏 公 塔 , Pinyin Sūgōng tǎ - "Tower (or Pagoda) of Lord Su" or Chinese 额 敏塔 , Pinyin Émǐn tǎ ) in the area of the Gaochang District , Xinjiang , China , was added by Prince Suleiman Built in honor of his father, Prince Emin, in the second half of the 1770s at the time of the Qing Emperor Qianlong .
The minaret belongs to a mosque complex designed in Uighur architecture . It has a diameter of 14 meters at the base and is 44 meters high.
The building has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China in Xinjiang (3-159) since 1988 .
Web links
Commons : Emin Minaret - Collection of Images
Footnotes
Coordinates: 42 ° 56 '4.3 " N , 89 ° 12' 12.4" E