Nanxiaguan Mosque (Qin'an)

📜 About & history

Nanxiaguan Mosque is in Nanxiaguan, Xingguo Town, Qin'an County, Tianshui, Gansu. Founded in the Ming Hongwu era (1368–1398) and covering 1,231 square metres, it is the religious centre of the local Hui. It became a county-level protected site in 1989 and a provincial protected site in 2011. It was extensively renovated in the Qing Kangxi era, and many buildings were destroyed in the earthquake of 1920. The surviving main buildings are the prayer hall and the minaret: the timber prayer hall is three bays wide and five deep under an overhanging gable roof, with brick carvings of flowers and eight brick panels of Qur'anic text in Arabic inside; the minaret is a pavilion with a double-eaved octagonal pyramid roof, joined to the prayer hall.

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