Built in 1380, the Xining Dongguan Great Mosque is the largest mosque in Qinghai Province. It is also one of the four great mosques of northwest China together with the Xi'an Huajue Mosque of ...

XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. Built in the style of a Chinese imperial palace, with tiled ...

As a place of worship, the Dongguan is the only Yihewani mosque in Xining that holds weekly Friday afternoon prayers. As many as 70,000 people attend in a typical week, spilling out into the street.

The largest inland salt lake in China covers 4,500 square kilometres and is famous for its mists and blue water. It is surrounded by atmospheric grasslands where sheep, cattle and horses graze and has ...

Right: Hui Muslim men in Xining's Dongguan Mosque in 1983. Hui Muslims number about 10.5 million, less than 1% of China's population. Dru Gladney/Pomona College hide caption ...

For example, the Dongguan Mosque was originally built 700 years ago in a so-called Chinese style, like an imperial palace with tiled roofs and no domes. It was nearly destroyed in the early 20th ...

XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. Built in the style of a Chinese imperial palace, with ...

The largest inland salt lake in China covers 4,500 square kilometres and is famous for its mists and blue water. It is surrounded by atmospheric grasslands where sheep, cattle and horses graze and has ...

Xining residents say the Dongguan Mosque's imam and director were briefly detained and forced to sign in favor of it. Less than a mile away, Xining's marble Nanguan Mosque is also being prepped ...

Xining residents say the Dongguan Mosque's imam and director were briefly detained and forced to sign in favor of it. Less than a mile away, Xining's marble Nanguan Mosque is also being prepped ...

XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. Built in the style of a Chinese imperial palace, with ...

China is removing domes and minarets from thousands of mosques. Authorities are taking down overtly Islamic architecture as part of a "sinicization" push to make them seem more traditionally Chinese.