Dongguan Village Mosque (Hui County)

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Dongguan Village Mosque is in Dongguan Village, Chengguan Town, Hui County, Gansu. Founded in the Ming Chenghua era (1465–1487), it is a complex of traditional Chinese halls. It was first repaired in the Jiajing era and enlarged in the Wanli era, as recorded on a 1586 stele on the rebuilding of the mosque that survives on site, and was repaired again in the Qing Daoguang era, in 1913 and in 1982. The present mosque covers 3,500 m² in three successive courtyards with five yards; the prayer hall, "Chongyi Hall", is five bays wide and eight deep (520 m²), and the street-front call-to-prayer tower, "Huaiyuan Pavilion", is a 15 m triple-eaved, three-storey hip-and-gable structure. Its Mula Tower, rebuilt in 1914, was listed as a Gansu provincial heritage site in 2017.

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