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Fujian Mosques and Islamic Heritage
(Under construction; I will add more text, and photos, as soon as I can).
According to a Míng Dynasty granite stele that I saw in the Fúzhōu mosque’s courtyard, of the 4 disciples Mohammed sent to China, 2 came to Quánzhōu, start of the Maritime Silk Route. Whether true or not, Quanzhou had at least 7 mosques at one time, and 40,000 adherents of Islam, and the remains of the beautiful Ashab Mosque still stand. It was modeled after a mosque in Damascus, but the dome collapsed during an earthquake in the 1600s. Worship service, are still held on Fridays. Plans are underway to rebuilt the mosque, but they've been telling me that since January, 1989, so I'm not holding my breath. However, Quanzhou did recently complete the Islamic Heritage Center, which is right beside the Quanzhou Maritime Museum (which has an astonishing collection of 100s of ancient tombstones and inscriptions--Islamic, Nestorian, Franciscan Christian, Hindu, and who knows what else).

Xiamen Muslim Mosque (Qīngzhēnsì 清真寺) Xiàmén was part of Quánzhōu, and had its best port, so its possible Muslims arrived early on. Some records claim Muslim traders sailed into Xiàmén during Koxinga’s day and built a mosque here. An elegant white mosque was built on Zhōngshān Lù in the 1840s. The present mosque is on the 4th floor of #27 Gōngyuán Nán Lù. In early 2006 the Xiàmen government announced that as part of a 7 million Yuan project to help minorities, they were helping Xiàmén Muslims to renovate the mosque and to build a Muslim cemetery in Tóng’ān (穆斯林公墓).

For info, contact: Xiàmén Islamic Assoc. (Xiàmén Yīsīlánjiào Xiéhuì 厦门市伊斯兰教协会)
Add: #27 Gōngyuán Nán Lù 4/F Tel: 2034471