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Shanghai Mosque walking tour May 18 2010 5 comments

Just found this on CNN Go. It’s an article called “Take a stroll through Shanghai’s mosque route” and covers a number of the mosques in downtown Shanghai and where to find them. From the post:

Behind Yu Gardens lies central Shanghai’s oldest mosque, built in 1870 in Qing Dynasty style. The congregation was started by Nanjing Hui Muslims who migrated to Shanghai. When the area was heavily Hui, the mosque was a center of cultural life. In the early 1900s, a primary school, the Shanghai Islamic Board of Directors and the Muslim Business Society were all based there.

Haven’t been to Fuyou in a while. It was the very first place I went on my own on my very first day in China. Fortunately someone there spoke Arabic. I couldn’t even muster “ni hao” back then.

Posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 04:28, filed under islam. , comment feed , respond , trackback
5 Responses to “Shanghai Mosque walking tour”

Karan Says:
May 18th, 2010 at 09:44
Wait, so are you then fluent or proficient in Arabic?
admin Says:
May 18th, 2010 at 18:29
Formerly conversational. Now rusty beyond excuse.
wanluqman Says:
May 21st, 2010 at 00:20
I think you should upload pics of the mosque, it will great .. still saving penny to see Shanghai
ChinaMatt Says:
July 6th, 2010 at 18:04
I was over there during my first year in Shanghai and didn’t know there was a mosque. Of course, I also stumbled upon the oldest synagogue in Shanghai on that trip without searching for it.
admin Says:
July 7th, 2010 at 03:27
man. i searched for the snagoge, dragging a couple half-willing friends along. took us forever to find it. cool stuff though. they had a bunch of recently unearthed chinese jewish tombstones on display, plus an art exhibit downstairs.

the mosques are pretty low key. two are near the edges of the old city; one north by 豫园 and one sort of southwest near 老西门. otherwise in pudong though i’ve not been to that one. and actually kicked out of the 老西门 one. but then i’ve been kicked out of bigger and better mosques than that so so be it.