Botou Mosque
Botou mosque is located at the south end of halal street, Botou City, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province
It is an ancient building group with wooden structure
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Botou mosque is composed of two parts: the main temple and the women's temple. The main building is the three entrance courtyard, which is located on the east-west axis. The three entrance courtyard is divided into three stones: Zhengbu, Zhengguan and Jingbu. The main hall has a construction area of 1595 square meters. It adopts the roll shed type construction form, with high in the middle and low in the front and back. The hall is divided into different spaces by the pillars of Phoebe. The north side hall displays a few hundred bird pines
There are plaques rebuilt in the 41st year of Kangxi (1702), steles of "mosque's eulogy" in the 49th year of Qianlong (1784), and brick carvings rebuilt in the 34th year of Guangxu (1908) and the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930)
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On June 25, 2001, Botou mosque was announced as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council of the people's Republic of China
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Historical evolution
In 1404, the Botou mosque was built
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From 1521 to 1567, the Potou mosque was repaired
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From 1572 to 1620, Botou mosque was repaired
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During the reign of Chongzhen (1628-1644), Botou mosque was expanded
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In 1702, the Botou mosque was rebuilt
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In 1935, mersumu, the principal of a middle school in Turkey, went to Botou mosque to preach
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Before liberation (1949), Botou mosque was the activity place of the Communist Party of China's underground Party organizations, which successively established "night school for the poor" and "night school for workers" and other non Party organizations
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During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Botou mosque was destroyed
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In 1982, the Religious Bureau of the State Council, the Cultural Bureau of Hebei Province and the people's Government of Botou City allocated more than 300000 yuan to repair the Botou mosque
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In 2005, the Religious Bureau of the State Council, the Cultural Bureau of Hebei Province and the people's Government of Botou City invested more than 7 million yuan to repair the Botou mosque
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Architectural pattern
Botou mosque, facing east in the west, is an ancient wooden building complex with Arabic style and Chinese architectural characteristics. It integrates architecture, sculpture, painting and calligraphy. It covers an area of 15000 square meters, with nearly 200 houses and a construction area of more than 5000 square meters
It consists of two parts: the main temple and the women's temple. The main building is a three entrance courtyard, which is located on the east-west axis
The courtyard is divided into the front courtyard, the middle courtyard and the main hall. The front courtyard has the North-South righteousness school, the middle courtyard is the North-South auxiliary hall, and the main hall has the North-South lecture hall
Three steps into the courtyard are divided into three stones: Zhengbu, Zhengguan and Jingbu
In the temple, the corner pavilions are opposite to each other, and many courtyards are set up with gateways and stone bridges
The main gate is three rooms wide and 10 meters high, with a single eaves on the hill. The ancient shed goes out of the building, with glazed tile roof, red door and copper decoration. The regular script "Hua Zhao Wu Ji" and "mosque" are written in black and gold. On the other side, there is a temporary door, followed by a blue brick tile and a carved wall. The building of the front is quite impressive
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Main buildings
forecourt
The front courtyard is located at the east end of Botou mosque, with three North and three South schools on the left and right. On the front is a two-story three mengbanke building about 20 meters high, with grey walls, red columns, stone carved brackets, sharp green roofs and high cornices. Inside the building, there is a pavilion at the bottom and a hall at the top. There are sacrificial flower shuttle railings around the building. At the top, there are carved wooden skirt waist plates and hanging style. The wood is exquisite. There is a convenient door on both sides of the building, and each building is a double eaves roof. The central hall is composed of the moon tower, the North-South temporary door, the North-South auxiliary hall, and the East ear room. The moon tower is the starting point of the central courtyard, and the lower floor is the pavilion, with brick masonry walls and round windows, surrounded by 12 square columns The corridor has four sides of cornices, with prismatic flower railings between the pillars. The upper floor is a hall, with a narrow corridor outside, which can pass people. It is surrounded by swastika flower railings, with wooden relief waist plate on the top, hanging flower style, two-story three Meng, double eaves sedan chair top (the upper floor is double eaves, the lower floor is single eaves), green glazed tile cover top, and three-story cornice ornaments are made of green glazed tiles
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The Chinese people's court
The central courtyard is located in the middle of Botou mosque, with six North and six South Auxiliary halls. It is on the line with the Yixue stone. It faces back and sits several feet, leaving a large space to highlight the main hall. On the front, there are three screen doors and Yidian pavilion with 3-4 meters high color paintings. There are many layers of four vaulting arches and a large depth of eaves.
audience hall
The main hall (danbu) is located at the west end of Botou mosque. There are white marble bridges on both sides leading to the north and South lecture hall. The South lecture hall is a Wen primary school, and the North lecture hall is a Wen University. The east side of the North lecture hall has a North cross courtyard, with 16 bathing rooms and water boiling rooms. The main hall is composed of four parts: the front hall, the front hall, the middle hall and the back kiln hall. It is 29 meters wide from north to South and 55 meters long from east to west, and is convex, known as "998" Eleven rooms ", with an area of 1159 square meters
The hall is divided into different spaces by the columns of Phoebe. The north side hall displays a few hundred birds and pines
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Collection in the temple
Botou mosque is rich in collection, including plaques of ancient emperors and celebrities, calligraphy and paintings of modern celebrities, multi volumes of Arabic text and 600 meter long volume of Chinese text copied by hand since Ming Dynasty (14th century), stone carved Koran, hundred bird pine slips presented by Shi Sanwei, a Jinshi in Ming Dynasty, stele of xuetianji of mosque established in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, and more precious ones Expensive Ming and Qing porcelains, bronzes, etc
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Research value
Botou mosque is a large-scale and well-equipped building complex in North China, with unique style, both Arabic style and Chinese architectural characteristics. Apart from the function of mosque, it also integrates the coordination of structure and art, integrating architecture, sculpture, painting and calligraphy, which has important historical and artistic value
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protective measures
In July 1982, Botou mosque was listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit by Hebei Provincial People's government
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On June 25, 2001, Botou mosque was announced as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council of the people's Republic of China
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History and culture
The origin of temple timber
It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty (17th century), Emperor Chongzhen, in order to repair the Jinluan palace, sent large quantities of materials from the south to Hebei Province. When the ship passed through fengjiakou in Botou, Li Zicheng led the peasant uprising army to capture Beijing. Shi Sanwei, the official of the Hui nationality in Botou, and Yu jideng, the Minister of rites, repaired the mosque with the wood
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Tourism information
geographical position
Botou mosque, located in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, Botou City, the southern end of Muslim street, the West Bank of the canal
It is 40 kilometers away from Cangzhou City in the north and 5 kilometers to the west of Nanpi exit of Beijing Shanghai expressway
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traffic
The bus routes through Botou mosque include Botou bus No. 2 and Botou bus No. 7.
Address: south end of halal street, Botou City, Cangzhou City
Longitude: 116.568453
Latitude: 38.064138
Ticket information: free. Free for believers
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