Heishi'ao Mosque

📜 About & history

Heishi'ao Mosque is in Qinggangling Hui and Yi Township, Zhaotong, Yunnan. Before the great Hui uprising in the southwest it stood in Daying Village; after the uprising, the Sa clan elder donated land and materials and, with the support of the Muslim community, Ma Yaolong rebuilt it at Heishi'ao in the early Guangxu era. The prayer hall is in classical Chinese style with 150 square metres of floor space, and the mosque has more than 300 square metres of buildings in all. As the population grew, seven surrounding villages, including Yuji, Daying and Huilongba, built their own mosques, and Heishi'ao became the central (Hai'i) mosque, home to a "two-township, seven-mosque" committee and 75 students. Its 210 Hui households (more than 1,000 people) follow the Ikhwan tradition.

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