Tanxia Mosque (Wuji)

📜 About & history

Tanxia Mosque is in Tanxia Village, Gaotou Hui Ethnic Township, Wuji County, Hebei. Facing east, it was founded in 1371 (4th year of the Ming Hongwu era) and covers 5,000 square metres, serving as the religious centre of the local Hui. At first it had only a three-bay prayer hall and three ablution rooms; it was later completed with property donated by the family of Xu Da. Burned by Japanese troops in 1940, it was restored in 1943 with help from the Shanxi–Chahar–Hebei Border Region government. Closed during the Cultural Revolution, it reopened in 1980 and now has men's and women's prayer halls, ablution rooms and a north lecture hall totalling more than 1,000 square metres.

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