Chinese authorities have altered, closed or partially demolished thousands of mosques across China in a suppression of Islamic culture that has spread to almost every region of the country. Beijing's ...
China is removing domes and minarets from thousands of mosques. Authorities are taking down overtly Islamic architecture as part of a... China is removing domes from mosques as part of a push to make ...
Left: The Tiejia mosque in Linxia, Gansu province, China, in 2016. Right: The same mosque on Nov. 13, 2020, after authorities demolished the mosque and minarets. (Alice Su / Los Angeles Times) The ...
China is shutting down mosques in areas outside of Xinjiang in violation of the right to freedom of religion, according to a report released Wednesday from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The Chinese ...
Hundreds of people gathered outside a mosque in southwestern China. They were protesting the planned removal of the mosque's domes, part of a nationwide campaign to eliminate Islamic influences. China ...
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 ...