A jagged limestone outcrop rising 175 metres straight out of the city, Sulaiman-Too — "Solomon's Mountain" — has been the spiritual centre of Osh for thousands of years. The Prophet Sulaiman (the Islamic Solomon) is said to have prayed at a small shrine near the summit, and the mountain has drawn Muslim, pre-Islamic and folk-religious pilgrims ever since.
Paths and stairs lead up from the eastern side, past Bronze Age petroglyphs, miniature shrines, and the rebuilt mosque of Babur — built by the founder of the Mughal Empire as a teenager in 1497, destroyed in Soviet times, and reconstructed in the 1990s. The summit gives a sweeping view over the city, the bazaar, and the green plain of the Fergana Valley.