📜 About & history
Originally called Qingxiu Temple, the Taiyuan Ancient Mosque is the city's oldest mosque and one of the best-preserved historic mosques in North China; a stele dates its founding to the Tang Zhenyuan era (785-805). It was rebuilt in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the present main structures are Ming-Qing work. The west-facing, two-courtyard complex covers about 2,120 sq m, with a gate, the Xingxin (省心) tower, a lecture hall and prayer hall on the axis. The hall's walls carry brightly coloured Arabic-style patterns and Quranic inscriptions, and the side pavilions hold stele calligraphy attributed to masters such as Huang Tingjian and Zhao Mengfu; it is a National Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit.
🕌 Prayer & visiting
A functioning mosque in central Taiyuan serving the five daily prayers and the Friday congregational prayer; a busy urban jama'at especially on Fridays.
📍 Address
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🚇 How to reach the mosque
- Line 2 Da Nanmen （大南门站）
- Line 1 Da Nanmen （大南门站）
On Jiefang Road in the heart of Taiyuan; many bus routes run along Jiefang Road and Yingze Avenue with stops within a couple of minutes' walk.
From Taiyuan South Railway Station take Metro Line 1 to Da Nanmen (about 25 minutes) then walk north along Jiefang Road; a taxi from downtown hotels takes 5-10 minutes.
Right in the downtown core, about 300 m north of the Da Nanmen (Yingze Avenue / Jiefang Road) intersection and walkable from Liuxiang shopping street.
A rare Tang-founded urban mosque and a protected national monument; dress modestly and visit outside busy prayer times if you only wish to see the architecture. Show this line to a driver: 请带我去太原清真古寺