Malou Mosque (Pingyu)

📜 About & history

Malou Mosque is in Malou Village, Xiyangdian Township, Pingyu County, Henan. Founded in 1885 (11th year of the Qing Guangxu era), it occupies 2,500 square metres. Its congregation of 1,500 Hui, mostly surnamed Ma and Hu, lives in Malou, Gaolou, Yanghe and nearby villages. Renovated in 1916, it ceased religious activity in 1958 and its buildings were demolished during the Cultural Revolution; the prayer hall was rebuilt after 1980 and the mosque reached its present size after an expansion in 1996, with a three-bay prayer hall, five-bay north and south lecture halls and a gatehouse totalling 450 square metres.

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