My Town | Eternal Beauty | Jamia Masjid | Heritage | Snow caped

Shopian is famous for apples though it produces best quality of the apples throughout the Kashmir crunchy, juicy and shining apples that is why shopian is also known as "apple town of kashmir" The total area of the town is 5.44 Kms. According to the historians and geologists the word shopian has been derived from two words "Shah" "pagan" i.e, Royal stay. According to them the former people shopian District stayed royal before early times. There are number of advantages of we people to reside in shopian District the first thing is that hills and plains receive snow fall in abundance unlike other districts of the Kashmir division. Every year in the month of December to February snowfall and cold is too much from 3 to 5 feet and minus 15 degree Celsius temperature respectively.

Today I have captured some pictures with snow caped trees and snow crystals on the road so my town explores beauty so my town is my pride.

Shopian is also known as snow forest and is considered as the old town of Kashmir it's heritages and heritagel sites represents the being old town of Kashmir, because the famous route Mughal road which connects the two divisions Kashmir and Rajouri. People of this town are very kind, humble and sympathetic. It is located in the southern part of kashmir. This town has created history regarding producing great scholars of @Islam like molvi @MohdAminsahab, @Ahrar Ahmad @Shahsahib, etc. Those scholars have guided the people of shopian as well as the whole Kashmir also. Let's continue to explore the beauty of the town, the apple orchids of the town looks more green and attractive during summer months and mostly in these months tourists from across the globe would like to prefer and visit this town and it's beauty. Apples, apricots, walnuts, cherries, pear, almonds, etc, are easily available during the summer months. If any one among you would like to visit my district you will be really surprised how God has created the beautiful piece of land.

There are numbers of tourist spots in the district like Hive account@peerkigali,@Mughalsarai, @Dabjan forests. Peer ki Gali is the most famous tourist spot of shopian and is situated on the top of the mountain of the Mughal road 15 Kms far away from main market shopian. During summer season people's from different parts of Kashmir and other states of India would like to visit the natural destinations of the Almighty Lord. At the peer ki Gali there is the graveyard of Kashmiri Hive account@saint mostly people visit the graveyard. Ahead of the destination there is another mountain namely Hive account@pir Panjal the highest mountain range of Jammu and Kashmir. There are numbers of grazing meadows where shepherds of the local villages grazed their sheep's, goats and other animals during summer.

Before peer ki Gali there is another famous Mughal architectural site @Mughal Sarai which was builted by mughals during their regime later on was destroyed by other rulers but now preserved. This Sarai is situated on the banks of river which flows along side of the river of the Mughal road. The beauty and the layered trees of deodar, popular are inexpressible. Fabian forests gave another bonus of beauty of the said spot. Along this beauty I include there is a wildlife sanctuary called "Hirpora wild life Saturday"

Hir pora wild life santuary is another beautiful part of the district and is home for the many plants, animals and bird species including endangered species like Himalayan Markhor species like musk deer, Himalayan palm, musk deer, black deer and has 130 species of bird species including forktail. Hir pora village is the coldest village unlike the other districts this village has best and fertile land which provides best potato so far ever they are sold at high price throughout the Kashmir specially red potato, which is also known as potato village of Kashmir.

I wanna mention here one more heritage of shopian District which is Hive account@jamiamasjid which enhances the more charm to the district. This building is one of the most important religious as well as archeological building of the shopian town and is located in the center of the town, it has many archeological reasons it is resembled with the Jamia masjid Srinagar, and Jamia masjid Delhi. This mosque represents the largest congregation interns of two festivals of the same year like Eidul Adha and Eidul Fitr which is celebrated Muslims each year according to their religion. This masjid was also built my Mughals. Mughals have played a very key role interms of constructing large buildings throughout India.
Finally I conclude with this point that my town has great beauty if you have time in your life once visit definitely.