Bukui Mosque

Bukui Mosque (Chinese: 卜奎清真寺; pinyin: Bǔkuí Qīngzhēnsì) is a mosque in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang in northeast China. It is located in Mosque Road (Chinese: 清真路; pinyin: Qīngzhēn Lù) off Bukui Street.[1] It was built during the Qing Dynasty, and listed in 2006 as a Major Site to Be Protected for Its Historical and Cultural Value at the National Level.[2][3] It is the largest and oldest mosque in the province.[4]

History and structure

The name "Bukui" is the Chinese transcription of a Daur word meaning "auspicious".[1] Bukui Mosque originally consisted of two separate mosques:[2]

The mosque contains roughly 2,000 square metres (22,000 sq ft) of constructed space; the whole compound covers an area of roughly 6,400 square metres (69,000 sq ft). The two prayer spaces together can hold a total of roughly 450 people.[2]

The mosque's long history has led to a saying in Qiqihar: "the mosque existed long before the town Bukui".[n 1][5] 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".[2] 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.[6] Reconstruction efforts were undertaken in 1989-1990.[3] 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.[3]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Chinese: 先有清真寺，后有卜奎城; pinyin: Xiān yǒu qīngzhēnsì, hòu yǒu Bǔkuíchéng.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "卜奎清真寺", 《MOOK 自游自在》 (50), 2001: 79–81, ISBN 957-667-787-4
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "卜奎清真寺", Qiqihar News, 2005-06-27, retrieved 2010-09-11
  3. 1 2 3 《卜奎清真寺》, China Cultural Heritage Foundation, retrieved 2010-09-11
  4. ↑ "黑龙江规模最大的伊斯兰建筑:卜奎清真寺", Xinhua News, 2008-12-12, retrieved 2010-09-11
  5. ↑ "齐齐哈尔第三集", China Central Television, 2005-08-29, retrieved 2010-09-11
  6. ↑ 刘沛霖 (1981), "卜奎清真寺", 《学习与探索》 (3), retrieved 2010-09-11

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Coordinates: 47°21′03″N 123°57′02″E / 47.350701°N 123.950683°E / 47.350701; 123.950683

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