Yinchuan's NanGuan Grand Mosque: A closer look

CHINA AT THE CROSSROAD - January 30, 2016  |  David R. Stroup

After two weeks here in Yinchuan, the city is starting to make more sense to me. There's a lot to say about this city, and the Hui community here. Before diving into some of these topics, I think it's important to give you, my readers, a feel for the community itself. In Yinchuan, this means taking a look at the NanGuan Grand Mosque. While Yinchuan has many, many, community mosques, the NanGuan is most certainly its largest, and most renowned. It's easily spotted. Unlike many of the mosques in Jinan and Beijing which I've been visiting, the NanGuan Grand Mosque is a recently rebuilt one, completed in 1981. Unlike Beijing's Niu Jie Mosque, or Jinan's Great Southern Mosque, the NanGuan Mosque is not a Chinese-style building, but instead is buit to resemble Middle Eastern style mosques. Its green domes and towering minarets topped with crescent moons are unmistakable.

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