Mawlana Mosque (Aksu)

📜 About & history

Aksu's Mawlana Mosque, also called Mawlanam Mosque, was founded in 1352, late in the Yuan dynasty, by the Uyghur Umar Jalaluddin at the old Kona Bazaar of Ayikule. It is one of the religious centres for Muslims of Aksu City and the four western counties of the prefecture, is described as one of the oldest large mosques surviving in China, and is a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level, visited by tens of thousands of Chinese and foreign travellers.

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