📜 About & history
Founded in the Yuan Zhizheng era (1341-1368) and rebuilt and enlarged repeatedly through the Ming and Qing, the Qinyang North Great Mosque faces east and preserves 25 Ming and Qing timber-frame structures (over 80 rooms) across more than 3,100 square metres. It is the most complete and distinctive Islamic architectural complex surviving in China's Central Plains, blending Chinese and Western styles, and holds over ten Ming-Qing stone inscriptions. It was designated a national key cultural relic protection unit (sixth batch) in 2006.
🕌 Prayer & visiting
Divided into a men's mosque and a women's mosque; five daily prayers and Friday Jumu'ah. Men's section retains the gate, passage hall, north/south lecture halls and prayer hall. Chinese/Hui imam.
📍 Address
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🚇 How to reach the mosque
No metro. Reach Qinyang from Jiaozuo/Zhengzhou by bus or train; local buses/taxi to the old city northwest.
This is a county-level city; Muslim visitors and the Hui community centre on the mosque itself rather than a separate trade quarter.
In the northwest of Qinyang's old town; a short taxi ride from the town centre.
A national-grade heritage mosque and one of the finest Yuan-founded Islamic buildings in the Central Plains. Halal food in the surrounding Hui neighbourhood.