Jump to content

Bukui Mosque

Coordinates: 47°21′3″N 123°57′3″E / 47.35083°N 123.95083°E / 47.35083; 123.95083
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bukui Mosque
卜奎清真寺
Religion
AffiliationSunni Islam
Ecclesiastical or organisational statusMosque
StatusActive
Location
LocationQiqihar, Heilongjiang
CountryChina
Bukui Mosque is located in Heilongjiang
Bukui Mosque
Location of the mosque in Heilongjiang
Map
Geographic coordinates47°21′3″N 123°57′3″E / 47.35083°N 123.95083°E / 47.35083; 123.95083
Architecture
TypeMosque
Completed
  • 1684 (East)
  • 1852 (West)
Specifications
Capacity450 worshipers
Interior area2,000 m2 (22,000 sq ft)
Minaret1 (pagoda-style)
Site area6,400 m2 (69,000 sq ft)
Official nameBukui Mosque
卜奎清真寺
TypeCultural
CriteriaReligion
Designated25 June 2006
Reference no.6-504

The Bukui Mosque (Chinese: 卜奎清真寺; pinyin: Bǔkuí Qīngzhēnsì) is a mosque in Qiqihar, in the Heilongjiang province of China. It is located in Mosque Road (Chinese: 清真路; pinyin: Qīng Zhēn Lù) off Bukui Street.[1] It was built during the Qing dynasty, and was listed as a Chinese major cultural heritage site in 2006.[2][3] It is the largest and oldest mosque in Heilongjiang province.[4]

History and structure

[edit]

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

  • The East Mosque, a three-storey, 374-square-metre (4,030 sq ft) building constructed in Kangxi 23 (1684), predating the city of Qiqihar by seven years[2]
  • The West Mosque, a two-storey, 173-square-metre (1,860 sq ft) building constructed in Xianfeng 3 (1852) by followers of the Jahriyya menhuan who immigrated from Gansu[1][2]

The mosque contains approximately 2,000 square metres (22,000 sq ft) of constructed space; the whole compound covers an area of approximately 6,400 square metres (69,000 sq ft). The two prayer spaces together can hold approximately 450 worshipers.[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 completed in 1981found that while the East Mosque was in relatively good condition, there was serious structural damage to the West Mosque.[6][dead link] Reconstruction efforts were undertaken in 1989–1990.[3] On 25 June 2006, the Bukui Mosque was entered onto the list of Chinese major cultural heritage sites of national significance.[3]

See also

[edit]
Bukui Mosque
Simplified Chinese卜奎清真寺
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBǔkuí Qīngzhēnsì

Footnotes

[edit]
  1. ^ simplified Chinese: 先有清真寺，后有卜奎城; traditional Chinese: 先有清真寺，後有卜奎城; pinyin: Xiān yǒu qīngzhēnsì, hòu yǒu Bǔkuíchéng.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c 卜奎清真寺, MOOK 自游自在 (in Chinese), pp. 79–81, 2001, ISBN 957-667-787-4
  2. ^ a b c d e f 卜奎清真寺, Qiqihar News (in Chinese), June 27, 2005, archived from the original on March 3, 2016, retrieved September 11, 2010
  3. ^ a b c 卜奎清真寺 (in Chinese), China Cultural Heritage Foundation, retrieved September 11, 2010[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ 黑龙江规模最大的伊斯兰建筑:卜奎清真寺, Xinhua News (in Chinese), December 12, 2008, archived from the original on March 12, 2012, retrieved September 11, 2010
  5. ^ 齐齐哈尔第三集, China Central Television (in Chinese), August 29, 2005, retrieved September 11, 2010
  6. ^ Liu, Peilin (刘沛霖) (1981), 卜奎清真寺, 学习与探索 (in Chinese), retrieved September 11, 2010
[edit]
  • Media related to Bukui Mosque at Wikimedia Commons
  • Photos of the Bukui mosque (in French)


Flag of PRoCmosque

This article about a mosque or other Islamic place of worship in China is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bukui_Mosque&oldid=1318637739"