Nanyang Ancient Town Mosque (Weishan)

📜 About & history

Nanyang Mosque is in the centre of Nanyang Ancient Town, Weishan County, Shandong. Founded in the late Ming dynasty, it covers 2.8 mu. Nanyang was a major Grand Canal trading town, ranked with Yangzhou, Zhenjiang and Xiazhen as one of the "four great canal towns" of the Ming and Qing. Facing east, the mosque keeps its main gate, second gate, north and south lecture halls and a moon-watching tower; the prayer hall consisted of a front porch and a nine-bay main hall. The prayer hall was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, while the lecture halls are over 200 years old; at its height the mosque had 32 rooms. Restoration of the Nanyang historic buildings began in March 2023.

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