Haizhuang Mosque

📜 About & history

Haizhuang Mosque is in Haizhuang Village, Lizhuang Township, Fengqiu County, Henan. Founded in 1892 (18th year of the Qing Guangxu era), it originally covered 5.2 mu with a prayer hall, a second hall and a moon-watching tower, 1,400 square metres in all; some buildings were pulled down in the Cultural Revolution, and it was rebuilt in 1985. Modelled on classical Chinese architecture, it has a hip-and-gable gatehouse and a prayer hall made up of a front porch, main hall and rear niche hall; the prayer hall covers 600 square metres and the whole mosque 1,500, roofed in green tubular tiles. Its 244 Hui households (more than 1,300 people) are served by 10 imams and 25 students; the head imam is Cai Yongping.

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