Zhihua Mosque

📜 About & history

Zhihua Mosque is in Zhihua Village, Fengyi Town, Dali, Yunnan, on a 3.4-mu site; its founding date is unknown. It was extensively repaired in 1907 (33rd year of the Qing Guangxu era) and enlarged and restored again in 1983. The congregation is devout and the mosque has long run an Arabic school, which has graduated four classes totalling 43 students since 1978; the community has 48 ordained imams. Zhao Zhongqi (1878–1970), a veteran of the 1911 Revolution, general of the National Protection War and lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army, was a native of the village. The congregation numbers 396 Hui households (1,490 people), and the imam is Ma Jiecong.

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