Fangcheng Mosque (Taikang)

📜 About & history

Fangcheng Mosque is in Fangcheng Village, Wangji Township, Taikang County, Henan, a village on the site of a Yangshao culture settlement. Founded in the 50th year of the Qing Qianlong era (1785), it is a Henan provincial key heritage site. Of Fangcheng's more than 4,000 residents over 500 are Muslims, mainly of the Liu and Bai families. The original prayer hall was a brick-and-timber building with a front porch and stone lions at the gate. Imam Sha Qimin led the rebuilding of the prayer hall in 1992, the north rooms and ablution rooms were rebuilt in 2008–2009, and Imam Ma Ping has served since 2009.

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