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Fuzhou Qingjing Mosque ancient Muslim gathering placeFuzhou's Qingjing Mosque    After 3 Wards and 7 Streets I set off in search of Qingjing Mosque to see the ancient tablet that claims Mohammed sent disciples to Quanzhou. Chinese used to joke about the Muslims who traded gems for silks and tea, saying, ¡°Treasure In, Tea Out.¡±

Fuzhou Qingjing Muslim Mosque A sign on Jintai Road claimed Qingjing was up a small alley to the north. I wandered about for 45 minutes. A policeman said go this way, an apple seller said another, a barber said yet a third, and a shopkeeper said he¡¯d never heard of it.

I walked all of August 17th Street, from the Provincial Government office on the north to the leaning Black Pagoda on the south. (They should build a Pizza Hut there, and call it the Leaning Tower of Pizza).

Streets were packed dandies strutting their Sunday Muslim Vendors selling raisins, walnuts, chestnuts in Fuzhoufinery, and shoppers carrying purchases from Red Earth Cosmetics, Guess Fashions, Pierre Cardin, Elle Fashion, Trendy Apparel, Justify Fashion Store, Power Tennis Shoes, Hush Puppy, Esprit, and Hang Ten. One fellow with slicked back hair and a black pinstripe suit strutted proudly up the sidewalk, a 4 inch ebony cigarette holder dangling jauntily from his lips. Interesting¡ªbut where¡¯s the mosque?!

At long last I came across two fellows in embroidered Muslim caps selling raisins, walnuts, and chestnuts roasted in black sand. I asked where the mosque was. They grinned and pointed to the noodle shop in front of me, beside the August 17th Street theatre, which was showing ¡°Swordfish¡± and ¡°The Mask of Zorro.¡± I bought a flat Muslim bread, and chatted with the proprietor¡ªa Muslim lady from Shandong Province. She said the mosque was behind the noodle shop, and pointed to door in back. It was low and narrow, like something Alice would have used while chasing the White Rabbit.

Muslim Stele in fuzhou says Mohammed sent two disciples to Quanzhou Behind the door was a small courtyard, with a fig tree and a gate with an Arabic inscription.  The mosque was behind the gate¡ªbut it looked more like a Chinese wooden temple! I could tell it was Muslim only by the plain interior, with its green carpet and prayer rugs. The only Muslim architecture in sight was the dome above the noodle shop.

But before the mosque/temple was what I¡¯d come to find¡ªthe stele claiming four of Mohammed¡¯s disciples came to China in 628 A.D. The stele is Ming Dynasty, not a firsthand account, but a long tradition supports the legend, and archaeologists have verified that Quanzhou¡¯s tombs of the two ¡°Muslim Saints¡± are Tang Dynasty.

An elder invited me in for tea and then got right down to brass tacks.7 ¡°Why do Christians believe in the Holy Trinity? Muslims worship only one God.¡±

Young Muslims gathered as talked theology and Fuzhou Muslims that I met in the Qingjing Mosquehistory. They were good-looking and proud, and I could imagine their ancestors pounding across the desert on camels. Lawrence of Arabia, and all that. The mosque has a congregation of over 1,000, and though I¡¯m a Christian, I was invited to join the 200 hundred or so who worship on Fridays at 1:00 pm.


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