Songmenguan Mosque

📜 About & history

Songmenguan Mosque, at 2 Songmenguan Middle Street in Kaifeng's Shunhe Hui District, was founded in 1920. Before 1910 the area was waste ground full of mainly Hui graves; Hui families from Nanyang, Xingyang, Shangqiu and elsewhere then settled here. The mosque began as four thatched rooms with help from the East Great Mosque, and a prayer hall was built in 1926. Closed during the Cultural Revolution, it was repaired and enlarged in 1985-1986 and keeps a 1988 stele recording the work; it covers 1,282 square metres.

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