Bukui Mosque

Bukui Mosque (Chinese: 卜奎清真寺; pinyin: Bo Kuí Qīng Zhēn Sì) is a mosque in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China. It is located in Mosque Road (Chinese: 清真路; pinyin: Qīng Zhēn Lù) off Bukui Street.[1] It was built during the Qing Dynasty, and listed in 2006 as a Major Site to Be Protected for Its Historical and Cultural Value at the National Level.[2][3] It is the largest and oldest mosque in the province.[4]

مسجد بوكوي
Bukui Mosque
卜奎清真寺
Bo Kuí Qīng Zhēn Sì
Religion
AffiliationSunni Islam
Location
LocationQiqihar, Heilongjiang
Shown within Heilongjiang
Geographic coordinates47°21′2.5″N 123°57′2.5″E
Architecture
TypeMosque
Completed1684 (East Mosque)
1852 (West Mosque)

History and structure

The name "Bukui" is the Chinese transcription of a Daur word meaning "auspicious".[1] Bukui Mosque originally consisted of two separate mosques:[2]

  • The East Mosque, a three-storey, 374 square metre building constructed in Kangxi 23 (1684), predating the city of Qiqihar by seven years[2]
  • The West Mosque, a two-storey, 173 square metre building constructed in Xianfeng 3 (1852) by followers of the Jahriyya menhuan who immigrated from Gansu[1][2]

The mosque contains roughly 2,000 square metres of constructed space; the whole compound covers an area of roughly 6,400 square metres. The two prayer spaces together can hold a total of roughly 450 people.[2]

The mosque's long history has led to a saying in Qiqihar: "the mosque existed long before the town Bukui".[n 1][5] In 1958, the two mosques were reorganised as a single mosque, with the name "Qiqihar Mosque". The mosque was listed as a city-level protected cultural relic in 1980, and as a provincial-level protected cultural relic in 1981; its name was then also changed to the present "Bukui Mosque".[2] An assessment done that year found that while the East Mosque was in relatively good condition, there was serious structural damage to the West Mosque.[6] Reconstruction efforts were undertaken in 1989-1990.[3] On 25 June 2006, the State Council of the People's Republic of China entered Bukui Mosque onto the sixth batch list of Major Sites Protected at the National Level.[3]

See also

Footnotes
  1. simplified Chinese: 先有清真寺，后有卜奎城; traditional Chinese: 先有清真寺，後有卜奎城; pinyin: Xiān yǒu qīngzhēnsì, hòu yǒu Bǔkuíchéng.

References
  1. 卜奎清真寺, MOOK 自游自在 (in Chinese) (50), pp. 79–81, 2001, ISBN 957-667-787-4
  2. 卜奎清真寺, Qiqihar News (in Chinese), 2005-06-27, retrieved 2010-09-11
  3. 卜奎清真寺 (in Chinese), China Cultural Heritage Foundation, retrieved 2010-09-11
  4. 黑龙江规模最大的伊斯兰建筑:卜奎清真寺, Xinhua News (in Chinese), 2008-12-12, archived from the original on 2012-03-12, retrieved 2010-09-11
  5. 齐齐哈尔第三集, China Central Television (in Chinese), 2005-08-29, retrieved 2010-09-11
  6. Liu, Peilin (刘沛霖) (1981), 卜奎清真寺, 学习与探索 (in Chinese) (3), retrieved 2010-09-11
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