Bukui Mosque
History and structure
The name "Bukui" is the Chinese transcription of a Daur word meaning "auspicious". Bukui Mosque originally consisted of two separate mosques:
- The East Mosque, a three-storey, 374 square metre building constructed in Kangxi 23 (1684), predating the city of Qiqihar by seven years
- The West Mosque, a two-storey, 173 square metre building constructed in Xianfeng 3 (1852) by followers of the Jahriyya menhuan who immigrated from Gansu
The mosque contains roughly 2,000 square metres of constructed space; the whole compound covers an area of roughly 6,400 square metres. The two prayer spaces together can hold a total of roughly 450 people.
The mosque's long history has led to a saying in Qiqihar: "the mosque existed long before the town Bukui". In 1958, the two mosques were reorganised as a single mosque, with the name "Qiqihar Mosque". The mosque was listed as a city-level protected cultural relic in 1980, and as a provincial-level protected cultural relic in 1981; its name was then also changed to the present "Bukui Mosque". An assessment done that year found that while the East Mosque was in relatively good condition, there was serious structural damage to the West Mosque. Reconstruction efforts were undertaken in 1989–1990. On 25 June 2006, the State Council of the People's Republic of China entered Bukui Mosque onto the sixth batch list of Major Sites Protected at the National Level.
See also
- Islam in China
- List of mosques in China
- List of famous mosques
- Timeline of Islamic history
- Islamic architecture
- Islamic art
- List of mosques
Footnotes
- ^ simplified Chinese: 先有清真寺,后有卜奎城; traditional Chinese: 先有清真寺,後有卜奎城; pinyin: Xiān yǒu qīngzhēnsì, hòu yǒu Bǔkuíchéng.
References
- ^ 卜奎清真寺, MOOK 自游自在 (in Chinese), pp. 79–81, 2001, ISBN 957-667-787-4
- ^ 卜奎清真寺, Qiqihar News (in Chinese (China)), 2005-06-27, archived from the original on 2016-03-03, retrieved 2010-09-11
- ^ 卜奎清真寺 (in Chinese), China Cultural Heritage Foundation, retrieved 2010-09-11
- ^ 黑龙江规模最大的伊斯兰建筑:卜奎清真寺, Xinhua News (in Chinese (China)), 2008-12-12, archived from the original on 2012-03-12, retrieved 2010-09-11
- ^ 齐齐哈尔第三集, China Central Television (in Chinese (China)), 2005-08-29, retrieved 2010-09-11
- ^ Liu, Peilin (刘沛霖) (1981), 卜奎清真寺, 学习与探索 (in Chinese (China)), retrieved 2010-09-11
External links
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- Photos of the Bukui mosque (in French)