The torch relay will be held in Kashigar today(June 18th) as the second station of Xinjiang.

At 9:30 am of this morning,the Olympic flame will start journey at Aitigar Square of Kashgar city and the relay will conclude at Kashigar People’s Square at 11:45, costing 1 hour and 45 minutes with 208 torch bearers traveling along 6.5 kilometers.

There will be 208 torch bearers to relay the torch in the route about 6.5km long, Dawaz performer ,"Air Prince "Adil·Hoxur  is also a torch bearer.

The Id Kah  Mosque, a magnificent Islamic building at the center of the Kashgar City, has a history of more than five hundred years. Shakesimirzha, the ruler of Kashgar, had the mosque built here in 1442, which was used by him to say prayers for the souls of his deceased relatives. Extended and repaired time and again through centuries, it has finally taken its present shape and size. The mosque, 140meters long from south to north and 120meters wide from east to west, covers an area of 16800 square meters and consists of the Hall of Prayer, the Doctrine Teaching Hall, the Gate Tower, a pond and some other accessory structures. The gate of the mosque, built of yellow bricks with the joints pointed with gypsum, has distinct lines. On either side of the gate is an eighteen-meter high round column with a half embedded in the wall behind it. On the Kurban Festivals and Fast-breaking Festival, the two most important grand Islamic festivals, the Uygur people gather on the square in front of the mosque to celebrate the festivals. And Uygur young men in their holiday-celebrating suits dance  “Sama” dance, with great enthusiasm, to the cheerful drumbeats and music.