Shenhe Village Mosque

📜 About & history

Shenhe Village Mosque is in Shenhe Village, Dacang Town, Weishan County, Yunnan. Founded in the late Ming or early Qing dynasty, it was destroyed in fighting in 1872 (11th year of the Tongzhi era), and in the Republican period worship continued only in simple houses. A timber-and-earth prayer hall was completed in 1917 and a minaret with a four-sided pyramidal roof added in 1946; the hall was enlarged in 1977–1978, and in 1997 the mosque was expanded in brick to form a complex with a basement. It now occupies about 9 mu with more than 2,000 square metres of buildings, and was named a prefecture-level model mosque in 2002.

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