Xiayao Mosque

📜 About & history

Xiayao Mosque is in Xiayao Village, Yaojie Town, Honggu District, Lanzhou, Gansu. The village takes its name from its position on the east bank of the lower Datong River, 2 km south of Yaojie, an old coal-and-pottery town. Around 1928 a group of Dongxiang Muslims moved here from Dongxiang Autonomous County, later joined by Hui from elsewhere, forming a sizeable Muslim community. Its first imam was Ma Junying, a retired Hui worker; the mosque committee has since appointed five more imams. The prayer hall is a three-bay Chinese-style building with a hipped roof; the mosque covers 0.6 mu, with a 70-square-metre prayer hall and 200 square metres of buildings in all. It serves 65 households (200 people), with one imam, 12 students and two board members, and holds one Arabic and one Persian copy of the Qur'an.

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