Bukui Mosque () is a
mosque
A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such as an outdoor courtyard.
Originally, mosques were si ...
in
Qiqihar
Qiqihar (also spelled Tsitsihar) is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up (or metro) area made up of Longsha, Tiefeng and Jianhua districts had 959,787 inhabitants, w ...
,
Heilongjiang
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, China. It is located in Mosque Road () off
Bukui Street.
It was built during the
Qing dynasty
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, and listed in 2006 as a
.
It is the largest and oldest mosque in the province.
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
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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
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menhuan
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who immigrated from
Gansu
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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
The State Council of the People's Republic of China, also known as the Central People's Government, is the chief administrative authority and national cabinet. It is constitutionally the highest administrative organ of the country and the e ...
entered Bukui Mosque onto the sixth batch list of
Major Sites Protected at the National Level.
See also
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Islam in China
Islam has been practiced in China since the 7th century CE.. There are an estimated 17–25 million Muslims in China, less than 2 percent of the total population. Though Hui people, Hui Muslims are the most numerous group, the greatest concentr ...
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List of mosques in China
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List of famous mosques
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Timeline of Islamic history
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Islamic architecture
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Islamic art
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List of mosques
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Asia
* List of mosques in Asia
** List of mosques in Afghani ...
Footnotes
References
External links
Photos of the Bukui mosque
1684 establishments in China
Mosques completed in the 1680s
Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Heilongjiang
Mosques in China
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1684
Buildings and structures in Qiqihar
17th-century mosques in China
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