Friday Mosque

Aba Khoja Complex
Kashgar, Xinjiang Province (map)

Slender, painted columns with flaring capitals elevate the porch of this congregational prayer hall inside the Aba Khoja complex. The tall, thin, horizontally-divided bases support red fluted columns to increase the perceived height of the porch. The capitals' fluting and horizontal divisions combine, in compressed fashion, the fluting of the columns and the divisions of their bases.