Shigatse Mosque

Shigatse Mosque (simplified Chinese: 日喀则清真寺; traditional Chinese: 日喀則清真寺; pinyin: Rìkāzé Qīngzhēnsì), located in Samzhubzê, Xigazê, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, is an Islamic mosque.[1][2]

History

Shigatse Mosque was built in 1343. From the 14th century, a group of Muslim immigrants from present-day Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kashmir and other countries and regions, as well as China's Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and other places, one after another in Shigatse settlement. In 1343, Muslims raised funds to create the mosque.[3] In the Qianlong period, the Qing government decided to station troops in Jiangzi, Shigatse, part of the army from Sichuan, Shaanxi area of Muslims stationed in Shigatse, formed a small Muslim settlement and repaired the mosque. The temple became the only mosque in Shigatse.[4]

Shigatse Mosque is a Tibetan-style flat-roofed buildings, sitting west to east, with a floor area of 320 square meters. The mosque's plan is rectangular-shaped, the door on both sides of more than 10 meters high Xuanli tower, tower equipped with iron crescent-shaped tip. The temple is listed as a Cultural Relics Protection Unit in Shigatse.[5][6]

Reference

  1. ^ Atwill, D.G. (2018). Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa's Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960. University of California Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-520-29973-3. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  2. ^ 中国边疆学（第九辑） (in Chinese). Social Sciences Literature Press. 2018. p. 1-PT91. ISBN 978-7-5201-3922-9. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  3. ^ Houérou, F.L. (2023). Tibetan Muslims: A Minority Within a Minority. from a Kashmiri Muslim Immigration to Tibet to a Tibetan Muslim Forced Migration to India. Ethnologie / Anthropology Series. Lit Verlag. p. 27. ISBN 978-3-643-91445-3. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  4. ^ "日喀则的世界意义：被世人遗忘的朝觐之路". 中国西藏新闻网 (in Chinese). 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  5. ^ 日喀则城市与建筑. 喜馬拉雅城市與建築文化遺產叢書 (in Chinese). Dong nan da xue chu ban she. 2017. p. 75. ISBN 978-7-5641-6974-9. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  6. ^ 西藏宗敎. 中国西藏基本情况丛书 (in Chinese). 五洲传播出版社. 2002. p. 157. ISBN 978-7-80113-917-7. Retrieved 2024-05-23.