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Bengbu Tianqiao Mosque

蚌埠天桥清真寺
📍 Bengbu · Bengshan District 🏛️ 1932 (expanded 1942) 👥 around 1,000 worshippers

📜 About & history

Founded in 1932 with funds raised by Hebei Muslims Han Fuxing and Yang Guanting, built as a traditional Chinese palace-style courtyard with a prayer hall, north and south lecture halls and a hexagonal moon-watching tower. Expanded in 1942 into one of Bengbu's largest mosques; during the 1957 religious reforms the city's mosques were merged into it and it was renamed the Bengbu Mosque, reverting to its original name in 1979. Listed as a municipal cultural relic in 2010.

🕌 Prayer & visiting

TraditionSunni (Hui Muslim, Gedimu)

Five daily prayers and a well-attended Friday Jumu'ah; sermons in Chinese. Full ablution facilities.

📍 Address

Huafeng Street, Bengshan District, Bengbu, Anhui
Address in Chinese (for taxis): 安徽省蚌埠市蚌山区华丰街

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🚇 How to reach the mosque

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Bus

City buses to the Bengshan District / Huafeng Street area in central Bengbu.

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From downtown

In the old commercial heart of Bengbu; short taxi from Bengbu Railway Station. Show 蚌埠市蚌山区华丰街天桥清真寺.

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Useful tip

Halal food available nearby along the old Huaihe-riverside commercial streets. Chinese spoken.