Bukui Mosque () is a
mosque
A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...
in
Qiqihar
Qiqihar () 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, while the total populat ...
,
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 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
Jahriyya (also spelled Jahrīya or Jahriyah) is a ''menhuan'' ( Sufi order) in China, commonly called the New Teaching (''Xinjiao''). Founded in the 1760s by Ma Mingxin, it was active in the late 18th and 19th centuries in what was then Gansu Pr ...
menhuan
Menhuan () is a term used by the Hui and Uyghur Muslim populations of China to indicate a Chinese Ṣūfī '' ṭarīḳa'' ("order" or "saintly lineage"). The leaders of a ''menhuan'', which usually are Ṣūfī Muslim '' murs̲h̲id'' ("ma ...
who immigrated from
Gansu
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The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibe ...
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
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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.. Muslims are a minority group in China, representing 1.6-2 percent of the total population (21,667,000- 28,210,795) according to various estimates. Though Hui Muslims are the most num ...
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List of mosques in China
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List of famous mosques
This is an incomplete list of some of the more famous mosques around the world.
List
See also
* Islamic architecture
* List of largest mosques
* List of the oldest mosques in the world
** List of mosques that are mentioned by name in the Q ...
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List of mosques
This is an incomplete list of some of the more famous mosques around the world.
List
See also
* Islamic architecture
* List of largest mosques
* List of the oldest mosques in the world
** List of mosques that are mentioned by name in ...
Footnotes
References
External links
Photos of the Bukui mosque
1684 establishments in China
17th-century mosques
Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Heilongjiang
Mosques in China
Qiqihar
Mosques completed in 1684
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