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″N119°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.
The English name Crane Mosque is a partial calque of its Chinese name 仙 鶴 寺 ,pronounced XiānhèSì 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 ]
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]
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