OSH TOWN

Osh is one of the most ancient and the second biggest town in Kyrgyzstan. It is located at an altitude of more than 1,000 metres above the sea level on the edge of the Fergana valley at the northern bottom of the Kichialay gorge. From three sides Osh is surrounded branches of this gorge, and in the of the town there is Mount Suleyman-Too which rises up to more than 100 metres above the town.
The Takhti-Suleyman mosque a monument of architecture and the most attractive place in the town, was build on its eastern side at a heght of almost 150 metres. This mosque is believed to be linked to Mukhammad Zahriddin Babur,a descendant of Tamerlane, and is called Babur House. Old-timers in Osh tell a legend: “Once prophet Suleyman (Solomon) was praying on the top of the mount in Osh. He bent his knee to a stone plate and bowed to God until he reached the soil. The prints of his forehead and knee remained on the stone plate. Since then this stone plate with the prints of Suleyman is regarded as a holy places and is called – Kadam Jay – footprints of Suleyman, and the mount was named after prophet Suleyman – Takhti-Suleyman – the throne of Suleyman”.