Songtun Mosque

📜 About & history

Songtun Mosque is in Songtun Village, Matou Town, Taikang County, Henan. It was founded in the first year of the Qing Daoguang era by the local Hui Li family. Built of grey brick with green tiles, it has a three-bay palace-style prayer hall with a front porch and upturned eaves at all four corners. It was first enlarged in the 30th year of Daoguang, the five-room north lecture hall was rebuilt in the Guangxu era, and a twin-pavilion moon tower was added in 1933. After religious activity halted in 1958, the north lecture hall was rebuilt in 1976 and enlarged to six rooms in 1982, five ablution rooms for men and women were added in 1987, and in 1992 an Arabic-style gate was built and running water installed. The Liuhe Mosque was historically a dependency of Songtun.

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