Danming Mosque (Xiji)

📜 About & history

Danming Mosque, formerly called Shanyitang, is in Danjiaji Village, Xiji County. Founded late in the Qing Guangxu era, it serves followers of the Qadim (Gedimu) tradition; its 15-bay brick-and-timber hall dates from rebuilding in 1920. On 15 August 1935 local Muslims received the Red 25th Army, and on 5 October that year Mao Zedong visited and talked at length with Imam Ma Dehai in the north wing; after the Red Army left, Nationalist aircraft bombed the village, leaving more than 20 shrapnel marks on the north wing that can still be seen.

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