Taipei Great Mosque

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Taipei Great Mosque
Chinese Muslim Association plaque on the wall of the mosque
Halal label from the Mosque Foundation
Prayer times display in the mosque (from right to left): Fajr (dawn), Zuhr (noon), ʿAsr (afternoon), Maghrib (sunset), ʿIsha (evening), Jumʿa ( Friday )

The Great Mosque of Taipei ( Engl. Taipei Grand Mosque ) is the largest and most famous mosque of Taiwan. It is located in Da'an , a southern district of the Taiwanese capital Taipei . Their total area on Xinsheng South Street is over 2500 square meters. It was registered as a Historic Monument on June 26, 1999 by the Taipei City Government.

history

In the second half of the 1950s, a mosque was the chairman of the according to the proposal to build Chinese Muslim Association (CMA) bai chongxi and Foreign Minister George Yeh the building by the architect Yang Cho-cheng designed by the Continental Engineering Corporation realized and Completed on April 13, 1960. The construction costs were borne by the Chinese Muslim Association , 150,000 US dollars came from the Shah of Persia , Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , and 100,000 US dollars from the King of Jordan , later the Taiwanese government issued the remaining payment. The mosque has close ties to Saudi Arabia , which continues to provide financial support to the mosque. In 1971 the Saudi King Faisal visited the mosque.

architecture

The building is the largest mosque in Taiwan, its complex includes a reception hall, a prayer hall, offices, a library and a cleaning hall. It combines modern with Middle Eastern architectural elements.

various

Of Shih Tzu-chou (1879-1969), who later became president of the CMA, one appeared in 1958 Koran translation with commentary in Mandarin in print.

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Chinese 新生 南路
  2. ↑ Chinese 葉公 超
  3. ↑ Chinese 楊卓成
  4. ↑ Local Muslims hope peace prevails (October 2, 2001, Taipei Times), in the web archive - accessed November 18, 2017
  5. ↑ Shi Zizhou 时 子 周
  6. ↑ Gulanjing guoyu yijie 古兰经 国语 译 解

Web links

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Great Mosque of Taipei (alternative names of the lemma)
Taipei Great Mosque; Taipei Grand Mosque; Taipei Great Mosque; 臺北 清真 大寺; 臺北 清真寺 台北 清真寺; 台北 清真 大寺; Táiběi Qīngzhēnsì; Tâi-pak Chheng-chin-sī, Taibei Qingzhen Si; Taibei Qingzhen Dasi

Coordinates: 25 ° 1 ′ 40.4 ″  N , 121 ° 32 ′ 2.5 ″  E