Dongguan Mosque sits on the south side of Dongguan Street of Xining City, Qinghai Province affordable China travel packages. It is a religious place for ten thousand Muslims in Xining City. It is the largest scaled and the most ancient mosque in Qinghai Province, and is one of the famous four mosques in southwest of China. Dongguan Mosque was first built in 1380 of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Dongguan Mosque has ruined for several times in China history, and current mosque surviving was reconstructed in 1913.

Architecture Style

With a history of 600 years, Dongguan Mosque top 10 China tours has a style combining classical architecture style and ethnic style. It is a Moslem building integrating tower, wall and hall as a whole. With the total area of 13,602 square meters, Dongguan Mosque is not only a religious activity place for Muslim, but is the highest Islamic Institute, which has a good reputation at home and abroad.

Praying Hall

Praying Hall is the largest building in Dongguan Mosque that takes an area of 1,102 square meters. It can hold 3,000 followers to pray at the same time. Praying Hall has a half-timbered structure. With the roof glazed tile covered, there is a glittering gold plating aquarius in Tibetan style decorated on the top. It was said that it was presented by monks of Labrang Temple (a famous Gelug Tibetan Buddhism in Gansu Province Silk Road tour ), which is unique in China’s mosques.

Other Buildings

There are two two-layer buildings with saddle roof on the both sides of Praying Hall. These three buildings link closely form the main body of Dongguan Mosque. There is a huge square with an area of 28 thousand square meters in the front of Praying Hall, which is paved by bluestone slates in various shapes. The whole building features upturned eave, arched door, carved beams and painted rafter, which is very splendid.

Main Gate

Outside the square are three front gates (the former main gate of Dongguan Mosque) in western style, which are built by large granite, about 10 meters high and 21 meters wide. There are two towering minarets standing on the both sides of huge gates with two small prayer wheels decorated on the top of minarets.

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