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Title of Piece: Window of the Id Kah Mosque
Date of Creation: ca. 1442
Location: Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
Brief Description: The Id Kah Mosque was built by Saqsiz Mirza and is the largest Mosque in china. It covers 16,800 square feet. It houses around 10.000 worshippers on Friday and can accommodate up to 20.000 people.
Photographer Info: Sarah Hall

Title of Piece: The edge of Taklamakan desert
Location: In the Xinjiang rUyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China
Brief Description: The Taklamakan Desert is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world. Travelers on the Silk Road sought to avoid this wasteland staying on the northern and southern edge of the desrt
Photographer Info: Sarah Hall

Title of Piece: The old city of Kashgar
Date of Creation: 76 BCE
Location: Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
Brief Description: Kashgar is an oasis in the Taklamakan desert in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region of the People's Republic in China. It is in Kashgar that the Northern and Southern silk routes converged.
Photographer Info: Sarah Hall

Title of Piece: Stone City ruins
Date of Creation: Established 206 BCE
Location: Tashkurgan, Xinjiang province, China
Brief Description: Meaning Stone City in Turki, Tashkurgan was so named after an ancient city, more than 2, 000 years old. Tashkurgan was famous for its location at the junction of the middle route and southern route of the ancient Silk Road.
Photographer Info: Sarah Hall

Title of Piece: Apak Hoja Mausoleum
Date of Creation: 1640
Location: Kashi in the Xinjiang province of China
Brief Description: The Tomb of Apak Hoja is located 3.1 miles northeast of Kashi in the Xinjiang province of China. Apak Hoja was the king of the Hoja State of Kashgar. His tomb was built in 1640 for the king and his family. It is the largest Islamic mausoleum in China. The tomb complex is composed of gate towers, large and small mosques, scripture halls, and main tomb chambers.
Photographer Info: Sarah Hall