Yingli Mosque (Xiaoxuexi Alley)

📜 About & history

Yingli Mosque on Xiaoxuexi Alley, Lianhu District, takes its name, "inside the barracks", from a military camp. One tradition dates it to the Tang, when Arab or Persian soldiers who had helped Guo Ziyi suppress the An Lushan rebellion were quartered in the alley; the more common account says the Yuan government built it for Muslim troops stationed in Chang'an. The earliest documented construction date, however, is in the Qing Qianlong era. One of three mosques in the Xuexixiang community, it is hemmed in by houses, so its east-facing gate stands in the north-west corner; it has a stone corridor, a moon gate and a triple stone gateway, and its layout resembles a miniature of the Xiaopiyuan North Great Mosque.

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