NW China
Xinjiang
Aksu Prefecture

Kizilgaha Grottoes

The Kizilgaha Caves consist in a Buddhist Temple inside a complex of caves in the area of , , . The paintings in the cave go back to the 5th century CE.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site
  • Also known as: “Kizil Gaha caves”, “Kizil Gaha Caves”, and “Kizilgaha caves”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kuche.

Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kucha was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the and south of the .

Kizilgaha Grottoes

Latitude
41.79191° or 41° 47′ 31″ north
Longitude
82.89891° or 82° 53′ 56″ east
Open location code
8MH4QVRX+QH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4547296877
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q1529997
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Turkish—“Kizilgaha Grottoes” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Пячоры Кізілгаха”
  • Chinese: “克孜尔尕哈石窟”
  • German: “Kizilgaha-Grotten”
  • Hausa: “Kogin Kizilgaha”
  • Hebrew: “מערות קיזילגהה”
  • Japanese: “アアイ石窟”
  • Japanese: “キジルガハ石窟”
  • Kazakh: “Қызылғаха үңгірлері”
  • Russian: “Пещеры Кизилгаха”
  • Tatar: “Кызылгаһа мәгарәләре”
  • Turkish: “Kızılkaya Mağaraları”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kizilgaha Grottoes”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.