📜 About & history
Xuanhuagang Gongbei, also called Beishan Gongbei, is one of the principal centres of the Jahriyya (Zheherenye) Sufi order in China. It grew after the seventh-generation Jahriyya master Ma Yuanzhang came here in 1875, and over three generations and some seventy years an extensive shrine complex of about 47 mu took shape in a Yunnan-garden style set against the hills. Destroyed during the 1958 religious reforms and the Cultural Revolution, it was reopened and rebuilt from 1985.
🕌 Prayer & visiting
Major Jahriyya pilgrimage shrine with mosque; daily prayers, Friday Jumu'ah and large annual commemorations. Chinese-language sermons.
📍 Address
🇨🇳 Inside China use Baidu or Amap; Google Maps needs a VPN.
🚇 How to reach the mosque
No metro; reach Zhangjiachuan county town by bus/taxi from Tianshui, then taxi about 15 li north to Beishan.
Zhangjiachuan is a Hui autonomous county; from the county-town Muslim quarter take a taxi north to Beishan.
From Zhangjiachuan county centre, about 7-8 km north by taxi into the Beishan hills.
One of Gansu's most important Sufi sites outside Linxia. Zhangjiachuan county town has extensive halal dining; Chinese widely spoken.