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Islam in China.

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Islam in china.

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Mosque in Linxia, western China

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Largest Mosque in China—The Great Mosque of Xian, China.

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Islam in China

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Xian Great Mosque, China. Built in 742 in the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
The main buildings include the decorated archway, the prayer hall, the minaret (a traditional Chinese Tower), the scripture hall, the imam’s dorm, and the stele pavilion, etc. The principal building is the prayer hall, which can accommodate 2,000 prayers at the same time. In the mosque there are many precious cultural relics, such as epigraphs, tablets, couplets, censers, phylacteries, paintings, hanging lamps and so on. A hand-written copy of the Koran by a well-known Moslem noble in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) is preserved in the mosque. Xian Mosques (Masjid in Xian)

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Xi’an Mosque, China.

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masjid cheng ho, China.

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Reminder to protect the environment in the Great Mosque in three languages. In Mandarin in reads literally - protect the peace.

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The Great Mosque of Guangzhou, known also as Huaisheng Mosque (Memorial of the Holy Prophet) or the Guangta Mosque (Light Tower Mosque), is thought to be the earliest surviving mosque in China and has the earliest freestanding minaret in China

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Chinese Muslims listen to the Khutbah (Islamic sermons/lectures/talks) in this beautifully interior designed mosque.

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Grand-Mosque-in-Xian, China.

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Kylin Mosque in Quanzhou, China.

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Huajuexiang Mosque in Xian, China.