Bukui Mosque

Bukui Mosque is also called Worship Mosque, which is a Islamic ancient building with Chinese national characteristics. It's located at 1 Liaomao Hutong of Jianhua District.

It covers 4,312 m2, with the building area of more than 2,000 m2. The Mosque is divided into two parts of east and west. The East Mosque was built by Islamic Qadim Sect Muslims in the 23rd year of Kangxi's Reign in Qing Dynasty (1684). There were five thatched cottages at the beginning, which were frequently rebuilt and expanded afterwards. The west Mosque was built by Islamic Jeholinev Sect Muslims in the 2nd year of Xianfeng's Reign (1852). There were 60 thatched cottages at the beginning, which were renovated afterwards. The distribution of the East and West Mosque is similar with each other, both are palace brick and wood construction. The main building is composed of Big Hall (Worship Hall), Kiln Hall and Arch. The auxiliary buildings are Entrance, Halls, Dean Room, Lecture Hall, Shower Room and Funeral Room, etc. The area of the East Mosque Big Hall is 374m2, the area of the West Mosque Big Hall is 173m2, which could hold 450 people for worship. The Big Hall faces west. There is a square-built canopy burou in front of the hall with connected flying eaves and colorful rafters. Several Tupidanthus-like arches are set off by 6 big red pillars. A horizontal plaque of Tasmi in Arabian is hanged on the main gate with a stele of Zealous for Common Weal hanged on its left. 20 hinge doors are engraved with musical instruments, chess, painting and calligraphy, flowers in four seasons and exquisite decorative patterns. Brick carvings are engraved on the two fastigiums inside the Big Hall. The Kiln Hall consists of pagoda base, pagoda body and pagoda top. East Mosque Kiln Hall is a 3-storeyed square pagoda style, with 4 golden characters of Tian Fang Jie Jing carved on the face of the stone carvings; the middle storey is entirely built with bricks with patterns of pillars, teeth and running fret shape. There are 9 round brick carvings on each face, with Holy Lord names and Holy Lord Images. A gilded copper gourd with 1.9-m height and 0.9-m diameter is inlaid on the Lotus Jeweled Seat of the pagoda top, and there are 40-cm-long crescent ornaments, which are symbols of “Variable Moon and Stars” for Islam. The Islamic building combine's lotus, gourd and crescent are very rare in China. The West Mosque Kiln Hall is a 2-storeyed building. A hexagonal tin ornament that is 1-m-high and 0.5-m-diameter, semi-round in middle and bowl-shape in bottom is inlaid on the brick carving Lotus Seat on pagoda top. The rare manuscript of Alcoran , Explanatory Notes of the Four Books the 8 th year of Xiangfeng's Reign (1858) Edition and other ancient books re collected in the Mosque. The East Mosque and West Mosque were combined in 1958. The Mosque was ranked as the Municipal-Level Cultural Relics Protection Unit and was rebuilt in 1980. It's ranked to be the Provincial-Level Cultural Relics Protection Unit and was named as Bukui Mosque in 1981.

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