Crane Mosque Explained

Crane Mosque
Native Name:仙鹤寺
Native Name Lang:zh
Map Type:China Jiangsu
Map Size:225px
Coordinates:32.3966°N 119.4399°W
Religious Affiliation:Islam
Location:Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
Tradition:Sunni
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Architecture Type:mosque
Architecture Style:Chinese
Founded By:Puhading
Established:1275
Year Completed:1390 (reconstruction)
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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.

Names

The English name Crane Mosque is a partial calque of its Chinese name Chinese: {{linktext|仙|鶴|寺, pronounced Xiānhè Sì in Mandarin. The name is sometimes explained by the supposed resemblance of the mosque's shape to a crane, 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.

History

Crane Mosque was supposedly built in 1275 by the Arab Muslim Puhaddin, a 16th-generation descendant of Muhammad, the year after his death and the year before the Mongol general Bayan received the surrender of Yangzhou following Li Tingzhi's execution by the Southern Song.

The mosque was severely damaged during the Red Turban Rebellion that ended the Mongolian Yuan dynasty. An Arab Muslim named Hasan rebuilt the mosque in 1390 under the early Ming. It was further renovated and refurbished in 1523 under the Jiajing Emperor.

The Crane Mosque is accounted as one of the Four Great Mosques of Chinaalongside the Huaisheng, Qingjing, and Phoenix Mosques in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Hangzhou[1] [2] [3] [4] and was inscribed as a cultural relic protected by the Jiangsu government in April 1995. It now includes a small collection of documents concerning China's relations with Muslim countries.[5]

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  1. News: http://news.sina.com.cn/c/p/2006-04-17/11589641616.shtml . zh:仙鹤寺(组图) . sina . 17 April 2006 . 21 July 2021 . zh.
  2. News: Sha Zongping (Chinese: 沙宗平). Wang Jianping (Chinese: 王建平). http://www.chinaislam.net.cn/cms/zt/phdy/yzysl/201501/29-7905.html . zh:中国伊斯兰教建筑珍品:仙鹤寺 . chinaislam.net.cn . 7 July 2021 . 21 July 2021 . zh.
  3. News: http://www.yangzhou.gov.cn/yangzhou/jdtj/201112/7644c2a50b914e5ebf043786f282e593.shtml . zh:仙鹤寺 . Government of Yangzhou . 6 December 2011 . 21 July 2021 . zh . 21 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210721125529/http://www.yangzhou.gov.cn/yangzhou/jdtj/201112/7644c2a50b914e5ebf043786f282e593.shtml . dead .
  4. News: Lin Yuanqin (Chinese: 林元沁). http://js.ifeng.com/travel/cyjs/fengjing/detail_2015_04/07/3753240_0.shtml . zh:扬州:仙鹤寺 伊斯兰教清真寺 . ifeng.com . 7 April 2015 . 21 July 2021 . zh.
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