For a site located in Balochistan

Balochistan (Pakistan)

Balochistan is one of the four provinces or federating units of Pakistan. With an area of 134,051 mi2 or , it is the largest province of Pakistan, constituting approximately 44% of the total land mass of Pakistan. According to the 1998 population census, Balochistan had a population of...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 known by the same name, see Takht-e-Sulaiman

Takht-e-Sulaiman

For a site in West Azarbaijan, Iran known by the same name, see Takht-i-SuleimanFor a site located in Osh, Kyrgyzstan known by the same name, see Sulayman Mountain...

For a site in West Azarbaijan, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 known by the same name, see Takht-i-Suleiman

Takht-i-Suleiman

For the similarly named locations see Takht-e Suleyman Massif in Iran, Taxte Soleymān in Pakistan, and Sulayman Mountain near Osh, Kyrgyzstan.Taxte Soleymān, is an archaeological site in West Azarbaijan, Iran...

The Sulayman Mountain (also known as Taht-I-Suleiman, Sulayman Rock or Sulayman Throne) is the only World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

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 in the country of Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

.http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/528 It is located in the city of Osh

Osh

Osh is the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan, located in the Fergana Valley in the south of the country and often referred to as the "capital of the south". The city is at least 3,000 years old, and has served as the administrative center of Osh Province since 1939...

 and was once a major place of Muslim

Muslim

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 and pre-Muslim pilgrimage. The rock rises abruptly from the surrounding plains of the Fergana Valley

Fergana Valley

The Fergana Valley or Farghana Valley is a region in Central Asia spreading across eastern Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Divided across three subdivisions of the former Soviet Union, the valley is ethnically diverse, and in the early 21st century was the scene of ethnic conflict...

 and is a popular place among locals and visitors, with a splendid view.(See List of World Heritage Sites in Kyrgyzstan)

Sulayman is a prophet in the Qur'an

Qur'an

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, and the mountain contains a shrine that supposedly marks his grave. Women who ascend to the shrine on top and crawl though an opening across the holy rock will, according to legend, give birth to healthy children. The trees and bushes on the mountain are draped with numerous "prayer flags", small pieces of cloth that are tied to them.

According to the UNESCO

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, the mountain is "the most complete example of a sacred mountain anywhere in Central Asia

Central Asia

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, worshipped over several millennia".http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/529 The site is still a popular place for local Muslims, with stairs leading up to the highest peak where there stands a small mosque originally built by Babur

Babur

Babur was a Muslim conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty of South Asia. He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother...

 in 1510, he later become the who would later become the founder of the Mughal Empire

Mughal Empire

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. Much of the mosque had been reconstructed in the late 20th century.

The rock also contains a museum that was carved during the Soviet era, showing archaeological findings from the area and its history. The lower slope of the mountain is surrounded by a cemetery

Cemetery

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.