Zhangjia Mosque (Xiguan, Qi County)

📜 About & history

Zhangjia Mosque is at the north edge of the south pond in Beijiahou Village, Xiguan, Qi County, Henan, on a 3.3-mu site. A simple mosque stood here by the mid-Qing; in 1805 (10th year of the Jiaqing era) the Hui scholar Zhang Wanqing, third-ranked in the imperial examination, replaced it with an imposing new mosque that took the name Zhangjia ("Zhang family") Mosque. Its prayer hall is built "three bays outside, five inside", and after enlargement it ran a scripture school and a martial-arts class. Damaged by Nationalist troops in 1948, it was repaired in 1950 by Zhang Yaolin and other elders, damaged again in the Cultural Revolution and renamed Xiguan Mosque in 1981. Its imams have come from Zhoukou, Minquan, Tongxu and elsewhere.

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