Xichang Jiyang Alley Mosque

📜 About & history

The mosque stands on Jiyang Alley in Xichang, an alley once called "Sheep-Slaughter Lane" because Muslims slaughtered sheep there. It was built by Hui settlers in the Yuan Taiding era (1324-1327) and moved in 1574 from its first site at the old west gate to its present site; the surviving buildings date from rebuilding after a fire in the Qing Guangxu era. It keeps a Ming screen wall and Qing steles and has two successive prayer halls. In 1940 the Xikang branch of the Chinese Islamic National Salvation Association was based here, and in 1941 it opened an Islamic primary school. It is the largest mosque in the Panxi region and a Xichang municipal protected site.

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