Xihua Chengguan Mosque

📜 About & history

Xihua Chengguan Mosque, the oldest mosque in Xihua County, was founded in the Ming Hongwu era about 300 metres inside the east gate of the old city wall; it now stands at the junction of Jicheng Road and Jizitai Road and was originally called the Inner City Grand Mosque. Four steles survive, including a fragment recording its Ming founding and one of the 1745 rebuilding. In 1911 the county's first Hui primary school opened here. The present buildings, completed in 1998 on a 2,000-square-metre site, include a prayer hall, north and south lecture halls and ablution rooms in a blend of Chinese and Arab styles. The current imam is Hajji Hu Jianyong.

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