Silk Road City Guide - Kucha

 

Molana Eshding Tomb

 

 

 

Molana Eshding Tomb It is also called Molana Hoja Tomb, lies in Kuqa county. Molana's meaning is descendent of sage, It is said that Eshding is the auspicatist of going west to missionize, He went to Kuqa to to do the missionary work in the Songlizong period, he was buried here, ancestral temple was built in Mazar, it is made up of ancestral gate, ancestral hall, tomb gate, tomb room four parts, they are decorated with green glazed brick, is a classic Islamic architecture, is very magnificent. There is a horizontal inscribed board where wrote four big words" The Arabian Sages " in the west corridor, there are recorded on the two sides of it, is wrote by Lifan in Qing emperor Guangxu the 7th year.