Kashgar Id Kah Mosque | Amazing Uyghur Muslim Prayers during Ramadan in Kashgar, Xinjiang

Watch as tens of thousands of Uyghur Muslims fill the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang for prayers as they break Ramadan fast. Learn more about the mosque here: https://www.farwestchina.com/travel/kashgar-id-kah-mosque ---------------------------------- Subscribe to FarWestChina: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=farwestchina Traveling to Xinjiang? Check out my highly-reviewed travel guide to the region here (and download a free chapter!): https://www.xjtravelguide.com ---------------------------------- For those unaware, Eid ul-Fitr marks the end of the month-long religious fasting called "Ramadan".  For the entire month a fast is supposed to be observed from sun-up to sun-down until the final day when they hold a celebration that seems to me to be as big in their culture as Christmas is in America.  People travel long distances to see family, visit friends, and in many cases to visit an important mosque. So when we woke up that morning after Ramadan, we knew there would be a lot of people, but that still didn't adequately prepare us for what we saw.  We arrived at Kashgar's Id Kah Mosque at 8am to find people from every direction of the city converging on the small yellow mosque which seemed to swallow thousands of them every second. The only sound we heard were soft footsteps and one small boy trying to sell carpets to those who only brought plastic bags to kneel on.  For one full hour the masses never stopped coming and the mosque never stopped swallowing. I later found out that the mosque can hold up to 25,000 people at once, but I figure there's got to be some huge fire code violation going on there.