Crane Mosque
Mosque in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crane Mosque, also known by its Chinese name as the Xianhe Mosque and by other names, is a mosque located in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
| Crane Mosque | |
|---|---|
仙鹤寺 | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Islam |
| Branch/tradition | Sunni |
| Location | |
| Location | Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China |
  Shown within Jiangsu | |
| Geographic coordinates | 32°23′48″N 119°26′24″E |
| Architecture | |
| Type | mosque |
| Style | Chinese |
| Founder | Puhading |
| Date established | 1275 |
| Completed | 1390 (reconstruction) |
| Crane Mosque | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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The English name Crane Mosque is a partial calque of its Chinese name 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,[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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