Dongguan mosque
The Dongguan Mosque ( Chinese 东 关 清真 大寺 , Pinyin Dōngguān Qīngzhēn Dàsì ) is a mosque in Xining , the capital of Qinghai Province , China. It is the largest mosque in Qinghai.
It was originally built in 1380 during the Ming Dynasty and was recently restored. The architecture of the mosque with its green dome is a fusion of Chinese architecture and that of Central Asia.
Generals Ma Qi and Ma Bufang controlled the Dongguan Mosque when they were military governors of Qinghai.
The mosque has been on the list of monuments of Qinghai Province since 1986 and on the national list of monuments since 2013 (7th list).
Ma Changqing (1936–2018) was the mosque's long-time imam. More than three hundred thousand Muslims attended his funeral in the Dongguan Mosque and he was buried in the Muslim cemetery in Xining.
References and footnotes
- ↑ Stéphane A. Dudoignon (2004). Devout societies vs. impious states ?: transmitting Islamic learning in Russia, Central Asia and China, through the twentieth century: proceedings of an international colloquium held in the Carré des Sciences, French Ministry of Research, Paris, November 12-13, 2001. Schwarz. P. 68. ISBN 3-87997-314-8 .
- ↑ cpc.people.com.cn: 马长庆 同志 生平 & 马长庆 阿訇 逝世 - accessed December 4, 2019
- ↑ وفاة إمام المسلمين في الصين الإمام عبد الله ما چانغ چينغ - msf-online.com (accessed December 4, 2019)
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Coordinates: 36 ° 36 ′ 55.4 " N , 101 ° 47 ′ 43.1" E