Qigexing Buddhist Temple Ruins

Qigexing Buddhist Temple Ruins - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Shorchuk or Shikshin Temple (; ) is a ruined compound of Buddhist sites located about 25–30 km southwest of the town of Karasahr, Yanqi Hui Autonomous County, Xinjiang, China. The site was a major religious center along the northern route of the Silk Road in the second half of the first millennium CE. Another name for the site is Ming-oi (明屋, "The Thousand Houses") in Turkic. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: None

Source: en.wikipedia.org