Jiaxing Mosque

Ancient mosque in Jiaxing

synonym

Jiaxing mosque generally refers to the ancient mosque in Jiaxing

Jiaxing Muslim temple is located in the south of Tongji Bridge on the river around Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. It is a "five gates and one photo" courtyard building in the south of the Yangtze River. It is symmetrical in North and South and has a strict structure. The inside screen wall is inlaid with the banner of "heaven is very close" carved with green bricks.

Introduction to mosque

The words "mosque" in gold and "maisaijid" in Arabic are clearly written. Jiaxing Muslim temple is a key cultural relic protection unit in Jiaxing City.

History of Mosques

The ancient mosque in Jiaxing, formerly known as "Zhenjiao Temple" (the same name as Phoenix Temple in Hangzhou), was built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty Wanli stele tells us when Islam was introduced into China, which is difficult to verify. This stele (the stele of jianzhenjiao temple in Jiaxing Prefecture) was erected in the autumn and September of 1602 (the 30th year of Wanli). Jiaxing Tongzhi Ma Hualong, the writer of the inscription, Che Daren, the governor of Jiaxing, and Ma Mengzhen, the writer of the inscription are Muslim officials.

The stele of rebuilding Jiaxing chapel temple is engraved in the Yin of the stele. It records the historical facts that Li Ren, Zhou Sima Sha Dacheng and others rebuilt the temple from 1746 to 1747 (the 11th to 12th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty), and Guo zaifen, his nephew, expanded the temple from 1774 to 1775.

In the area of Luli street, the old city of Jiaxing, Arab and Persian merchants lived together in the yuan and Ming Dynasties. Beside the East Tower, there is a great mosque, covering an area of dozens of mu. In the Ming Dynasty, a small Gai temple was built in Dongmen city to meet the needs of the Muslim population. The temple was destroyed during the uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Qing Dynasty, and the original Muslims fled one after another. The street name "Luli" may be a homonym or a loan of "Ali" and "Alin" (scholar).

Mosque pattern

The ancient mosque in Jiaxing is divided into two courtyards. The screen on the north side faces the gate tower on the second floor. The cursive script on the lintel reads "Zhenjiao Weiqing". In front of the gate stands a pair of round stone guises. In the corridor of the gate tower, the courtyard is paved with bricks and stones, and there are several flower beds, which are somewhat cramped. There is a lecture hall in the north and a worship hall in the south. The hall is connected with the hall. There is a stele Pavilion named "Qingquan Pavilion" in the front right of the worship hall.

There are three huge plaques hanging in the lecture hall, one of which is written with "PuCi Teci" in the middle, while on both sides are written with "halal oriented" and "Zhenya Weiqing", with vigorous and powerful writing style. The couplets on both sides of the column are "heaven as bright as the sun does not shine on me alone", "the holy way as the road can not help people walking", implying the meaning of Allah's kindness to all kinds of things, all kinds of things have the same goal. There are mahogany desk chairs in the Sutra hall. I want to see that the style of lectures was very popular in those years.

The hall of worship has three couplets and three entrances, and four Phoebe pillars support the dome, so it is called "Phoebe hall". The beams are carved with Koran scriptures, decorated with patterns and hung with a giant plaque of "recognizing the Lord as the only one", which is simple and solemn.

The "Qingquan Pavilion" outside the hall has double eaves and five slopes. There is an ancient well, carved stone well fence, Jiahe sweet spring, which should have been used for drinking water and bathing in the temple. In the south of the well, there is a stone tablet with inscriptions on both sides, which were respectively engraved in the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, commonly known as "one stone two dynasties tablet".

Mosque related

In the early morning, there was no one in the temple. There was a sudden sound of "SELAN" in the concentration. A young priest came into the temple with a child. In addition to the natives, most of the natives in Mali are from Henan. Their ancestors migrated here. The Imam and murlin who live in the temple are all from Henan. There are two or three hundred worshipers on Sunday. Some local Muslim students also went to Tonghai Nagu, Yuxi and Gejiu Shadian in Yunnan to study. He is open-minded and frank, and most of the Muslims he meets are like this. As the inscription says, "when people meet each other, they speak their own language and are as kind as a family.". On the journey, I feel that the daily life, diet and communication of Muslims are inseparable from Zhu an's Ci. A word of SELAN is close and brotherly. SELAN has become an invisible "ID card" of Muslims. It doesn't have to pass in mosques and sutras, teachers and students, and imams. The Koran teaches people to answer other people's congratulations with a better message (see 4:86), indicating that there is no status between the speaker and the replier. I remember that when I visited my humble administrator's garden in Suzhou, I was hungry. I failed to find a Muslim restaurant in the West and East streets. I saw a Shaobing shop. I asked daoshengselan, the owner of the shop in a white hat, for advice. He enthusiastically pointed out the pictures and even took out his business card to introduce the restaurant, regardless of the business. A word of zhu'an makes the world close to each other.

In the mosque, there is a stele on the reconstruction of shuiyi in Jiaxing Road, which records the establishment of shuiyi by huludin, a law-abiding County in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1269). It was established for Ma collusion, who was a senior official of Guanglu in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. Both of them are Muslim officials. I want to see that Islam flourished in Jiaxing for a time.

Map

Address: bad city east road, Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province

Longitude: 120.7582787938

Latitude: 30.760912921369

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