Crane Mosque
Crane Mosque | |
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仙鹤寺 | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Islam |
Branch/tradition | Sunni |
Location | |
Location | Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China |
Geographic coordinates | 32°23′48″N 119°26′24″E / 32.396556°N 119.439883°E |
Architecture | |
Type | mosque |
Style | Chinese |
Founder | Puhading |
Date established | 1275 |
Completed | 1390 (reconstruction) |
Crane Mosque | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 仙鶴寺 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 仙鹤寺 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Immortal Crane Temple | ||||||||
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Qingbai Liufang Mosque | |||||||||
Chinese | 清白流芳大寺 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Pure & Renowned Great Temple | ||||||||
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Crane Mosque, also known by its Chinese name as the Xianhe Mosque and by other names, is a mosque located in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Names
[edit]The English name Crane Mosque is a partial calque of its Chinese name 仙鶴寺, pronounced Xiānhè Sì in Mandarin. The name is sometimes explained by the supposed resemblance of the mosque's shape to a crane,[1][2] although the Chinese name references a Taoist immortal. As the most historically important mosque in the city, it is also known as the Yangzhou Mosque and as the Qingbai Liufang Mosque.[citation needed]
History
[edit]Crane Mosque was supposedly built in 1275[dubious – discuss] by the Arab Muslim Puhaddin, a 16th-generation descendant of Muhammad,[3][1][2][4] the year after his death[5] and the year before the Mongol general Bayan received the surrender of Yangzhou following Li Tingzhi's execution by the Southern Song.[6][7]
The mosque was severely damaged during the Red Turban Rebellion that ended the Mongolian Yuan dynasty. An Arab Muslim named Hasan[which?] rebuilt the mosque in 1390 under the early Ming.[citation needed] It was further renovated and refurbished in 1523 under the Jiajing Emperor.[citation needed]
The Crane Mosque is accounted as one of the Four Great Mosques of China—alongside the Huaisheng, Qingjing, and Phoenix Mosques in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Hangzhou[3][1][2][4]—and was inscribed as a cultural relic protected by the Jiangsu government in April 1995.[citation needed] It now includes a small collection of documents concerning China's relations with Muslim countries.[8]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c Sha Zongping (沙宗平); Wang Jianping (王建平) (7 July 2021). 中国伊斯兰教建筑珍品:仙鹤寺. chinaislam.net.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ a b c 仙鹤寺. Government of Yangzhou (in Chinese). 6 December 2011. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ a b 仙鹤寺(组图). sina (in Chinese). 17 April 2006. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ a b Lin Yuanqin (林元沁) (7 April 2015). 扬州:仙鹤寺 伊斯兰教清真寺. ifeng.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ Olivová (2009), p. 30.
- ^ Waterson (2013), p. 230.
- ^ Olivová (2009), p. 6.
- ^ "Garden Tomb of Puhaddin", El Segundo: Fodor's Travel
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Bibliography
[edit]- Olivová, Lucie B. (2009), "Building History and the Preservation of Yangzhou", Lifestyle and Entertainment in Yangzhou, NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, No. 44, Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, pp. 3–36, ISBN 9788776940355.
- Waterson, James (2013), Defending Heaven: China's Mongol Wars, 1209–1370, Havertown: Casemate Publishers, ISBN 978-1783469437.
External links
[edit]- Jumma prayer at the Crane Mosque, YouTube, 17 March 2023.
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