Xichuan Grand Mosque (Guanghe)

📜 About & history

Xichuan Grand Mosque is on Tuanjie Road, Chengguan Town, Guanghe County, Gansu. Covering 11,308.8 square metres, it is the central place of worship of the Wenquantang branch of the Qadiriyya order. The prayer hall has three storeys above ground and one below, is 24 m high and nine bays wide, and holds nearly 10,000 worshippers; its facade is set with four imported marble panels, and six minarets rise around it. The mosque runs religious schools with separate campuses for boys and girls, which take students of several ethnic groups free of charge and teach bilingual courses. Between 2004 and 2006 it was named an "Ethnic Culture Education Experimental Base" and a "Five-Good Mosque".

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