Shiyangjie Mosque

📜 About & history

Shiyangjie Mosque is on Shiyang Street, Chengguan Town, Xiangcheng County, Henan, and is in the seventh batch of Henan provincial protected cultural relics. Originally the ancestral hall of the Ming minister of war Xu Lang, it was converted into a mosque with funds from the Hui community in 1656 (13th year of the Qing Shunzhi era). It occupies 5.2 mu with 1,800 square metres of buildings, about 60 rooms including the porch, prayer hall and niche hall; the palace-style prayer hall now has a single-eave roof of yellow glazed tiles. Twenty steles dating from the early Qing onward survive. The Muslim translator Chen Keli served as its imam in 1946. State funds paid for its expansion in 1985–1989, restoring the original courtyard layout.

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