Shouxian Mosque

Shouxian Mosque

Shouxian mosque is located in the mosque lane of Shouchun town. It was built in the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1662-1722), covering an area of 5400 square meters. In 1981, when the temple was repaired, two pieces of chronological bricks were found on the top of the temple, with the inscriptions of "built in 1621-1627, and rebuilt in 1821-1850. In 1986, the hall was overhauled, and the words "rebuilt in 1940" were found on the tile rafters.

In March 2013, the State Council of the people's Republic of China announced the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Historical evolution

Initial construction

It is said that in Tang and Song Dynasties, Shoucheng mosque was built in the northwest corner of the county, and it was moved to the present site in Ming Dynasty. Guangxu "Shouzhou Zhi" records: "the mosque in the city Liudu Fang, Kangxi years built." When the temple was built in 1977, there were four bricks on the roof of the front hall, which read: "in the year of Tianqi, Guangxu was built, and in the year of Gengyin, Zhu Cailiang was rebuilt"; "Liu Guozhi, the Imam of the temple, taught Mei Yinghui, Mei Chunchun, Zhao Tianpei and Mei Wenquan, and finished in the middle of the winter"; "Yang Deshan, Zhu huailiang, Wang Yuanxing and Zhao yuanbiao, the directors of the temple, and Daoguang was established in Xingyue in his own year"; the fourth is Arabic, which means "ask the Lord to give it to me" We open the door of compassion.

Renovation and reconstruction

In 1981, when repairing the temple, we found two pieces of zhinianwang bricks hidden in the top of the temple, one of which is inscribed with the inscription "tomorrow will start the year"

The first is "the year of Guangxu". In 1986, when the main hall was overhauled, the words "repair in the 29th year of the Republic of China" were found on the tile rafters.

Scale system

Temple size

The courtyard of the mosque is 128 meters long from east to west and 14 meters wide from north to south. On the central axis, three entrances are arranged. The main entrance of the front yard is large and medium-sized, with side doors on both sides; the main house is two doors, with side doors on both sides, without wing room. The second courtyard is the middle courtyard, the main hall is the hall of worship, and the front of the hall is a broad platform. The north and South Wing rooms are the classrooms and water rooms of the former Arwen University, middle school and primary school, and the North Wing room is connected with the "Shaihai cave" in the West. There are several gingko trees in the courtyard, which cover the sky and block out the sun. The backyard is composed of Wuxiang hall and walls.

architectural style

The architecture in the temple mainly adopts the traditional structure form of the local Han nationality. The main gate, the second gate and the north and South Wing houses are hard hilltops with brick and tile ridges. Wuxiang hall is 5 rooms wide, 7 rooms deep and surrounded by corridors. The front of the hall (East Side) is equipped with a partition door, and on both sides of the hall there are five gates. The top of the hall is composed of two eaves, the front and the back, and the top of the hill. From the north to the south, the eaves are flying, the angles are warped, and they are perfectly matched; from the east to the west, they are magnificent and magnificent.

The front and back parts of the hall are roughly the same in scale, with slightly different methods. The front (East) side corridor is slightly wider, which is speculated to be caused by expansion or reconstruction after construction. The porch columns are made of stone. The front porch columns are octagonal, and the corner columns and the porch columns on both sides are four plum blossom columns. The rear porch columns and corner columns are square chamfered, with a height of 4.2 meters and a side length of 0.35 meters. In the front, there are two pieces of wood on the side porch, which are engraved with Huiwen; in the back, there are flower plates, which are engraved with curly grass. On the front column, there is only a bucket without arch. On the bucket, there is a beam holding the head. On the bucket, there is a purlin with overhanging eaves. On the double eaves, there are three jumps. On the bottom of the double eaves, there are three brackets. They are made by stealing the heart. Under the corner beam, there are braces. The middle part of the braces is carved with lotus petals.

On the South and north sides of the hall, the gate was decorated with water polished blue bricks. The method is simple, only the two ends of the forehead and the joint of the square pillars were carved, and the rest of the gate was decorated with polished bricks and stitched feet. The eyebrows are carved in a square sphere. The back hall is carved with curly grass pattern, and the composition and technique are more exquisite than the front. The structure of the plate is more complex than that of the front, and the practice of the back shows the trace of Ming Dynasty.

The column foundation of the front hall was given by the Qing Dynasty, and the pier decoration was more delicate. The front porch pillars are of drum pier type, with lotus petals carved up and down, and vines carved on the bottom; the gold pillars are of four or six column piers, with tripod seats under them, with plant patterns carved on each side, with gray tiles on the top of the hall, vines carved on the ridge, with ridge animal (destroyed) mountain flowers on the top as straight lattice plate, and the Bofeng plate is close to it, and the top is like Yijuan grass hanging fish. The beam frame is simple. The center column of the front and rear double steps is used as the double eaves, and the construction method of the side eaves is the same. The double eaves eaves step, the gallery step at the bottom layer is set with interpenetrating materials, the main beam of the inner groove is set with beam brace, the bottom of the moon beam is cut, and the ridge child is set with beam cloud. In the hall, there were more than 20 plaques from the reign of Emperor Kangxi to Emperor Xuantong (1908-1911) in the past, but they do not exist today. There are six inscriptions from Qianlong (1736-1795) to Guangxu in the temple. The inscriptions contain the donation of the righteous people.

Main landscape

The courtyard of the mosque is 128 meters long from east to west and 44 meters wide from north to south, with three entrances on the central axis: the main entrance of the front courtyard is large and medium-sized, with side doors on both sides; the main room is two doors, with side doors on both sides; the second entrance courtyard is the middle courtyard, with the main hall as the hall of worship. The hall has five wide faces and seven deep faces. There are corridors around the hall and stone pillars. The front of the hall is used as a partition door. There are five coupons on the South and north sides of the hall. The two sides are integrated, and the double eaves rest on the top of the mountain. In the hall, there are 50 columns, 49 and a half rooms and 936 square meters. The structure and carving all have the characteristics of Ming Dynasty architecture. In the hall, there were 20 plaques from the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty to the reign of emperor Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, but there are still six inscriptions from the reign of Emperor Qianlong to the reign of Emperor Guangxu. In front of the hall is the platform, and the north and South Wing rooms used to be classrooms and water rooms of Aven University, middle school and primary school. The North Wing room is connected with "Shahai cave" in the West. The backyard is composed of Wuxiang hall and walls. From the north to the south, the eaves fly and the corners intersect, and the East meets the west, which is magnificent and magnificent. The five ginkgo trees are towering and solemn.

honor

In July 1986, the people's Government of Anhui Province announced it as a key cultural relics protection unit at the provincial level.

In March 2013, the State Council of the people's Republic of China announced the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Address: Mosque lane, West Street, Shouxian County, Lu'an City

Longitude: 116.783809

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