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    The Great Mosque of Xian is the largest and best preserved mosque in China, built in the Ming Dynasty and resembling a 15th century Buddhist temple with courtyards and pavilions along a single axis. It has existed since the 7th century but the current structure was begun in 1392, founded by the naval admiral Cheng Ho from a prestigious Muslim family. The mosque layout follows Chinese temple design with successive east-west facing courtyards containing pavilions, pagodas, and gates leading to the western prayer hall. It is surrounded by high walls and divided into five courtyards, each with distinctive architecture.

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    The Great Mosque of Xian is the largest and best preserved mosque in China, built in the Ming Dynasty and resembling a 15th century Buddhist temple with courtyards and pavilions along a single axis. It has existed since the 7th century but the current structure was begun in 1392, founded by the naval admiral Cheng Ho from a prestigious Muslim family. The mosque layout follows Chinese temple design with successive east-west facing courtyards containing pavilions, pagodas, and gates leading to the western prayer hall. It is surrounded by high walls and divided into five courtyards, each with distinctive architecture.

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    The Great Mosque of Xian is the largest and best preserved mosque in China, built in the Ming Dynasty and resembling a 15th century Buddhist temple with courtyards and pavilions along a single axis. It has existed since the 7th century but the current structure was begun in 1392, founded by the naval admiral Cheng Ho from a prestigious Muslim family. The mosque layout follows Chinese temple design with successive east-west facing courtyards containing pavilions, pagodas, and gates leading to the western prayer hall. It is surrounded by high walls and divided into five courtyards, each with distinctive architecture.

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    The Great Mosque of Xian is the largest and best preserved mosque in China, built in the Ming Dynasty and resembling a 15th century Buddhist temple with courtyards and pavilions along a single axis. It has existed since the 7th century but the current structure was begun in 1392, founded by the naval admiral Cheng Ho from a prestigious Muslim family. The mosque layout follows Chinese temple design with successive east-west facing courtyards containing pavilions, pagodas, and gates leading to the western prayer hall. It is surrounded by high walls and divided into five courtyards, each with distinctive architecture.

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    HISTORY OF ARCHIYECTURE

    GREAT MOSQUE
    OF XI'AN

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE


    MOSQUE
    ARCHITECTURE
    • The Great Mosque of Xian is the largest and best
    preserved of the early mosques of China. Built
    primarily in the Ming Dynasty when Chinese
    architectural elements were synthesized into
    mosque architecture, the mosque resembles a
    fifteenth century Buddhist temple with its single
    axis lined with courtyards and pavilions.

    • The Great Mosque of Xian is thought to have


    existed as early as the seventh century. The
    mosque that stands today, however, was begun in
    1392 in the twenty-fifth year of the Ming Dynasty.
    It was ostensibly founded by naval admiral and
    hajji Cheng Ho, the son of a prestigious Muslim
    family and famous for clearing the China Sea of
    pirates. ALPINE SKI HOUSE
    PLAN
    • It has the layout of a Chinese temple:
    successive courtyards on a single axis with
    pavilions and pagodas adapted to suit
    Islamic function. Unlike a typical Buddhist
    temple, however, the grand axis of the Great
    Mosque of Xian is aligned from east to west,
    facing Mecca. Five successive courtyards,
    each with a signature pavilion, screen, or
    freestanding gateway, lead to the prayer hall
    located at the western end of the axis.

    • The mosque is wholly surrounded with high


    walls, divided into five successive parts by
    partitions, each of which has a gate house.
    Although each part is a courtyard garden
    ALPINE SKI HOUSE
    Pailou archway in the first court, adorned
    with five tiers of dougong brackets below
    FIRST the roof and supported on one side by
    diagonally
    COURTYARD propped beams

    Library known as the


    Unmatched Pavilion
    along the northern wall

    Detail of upswept roof


    eaves at the Unmatched
    Pavilion

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE


    View looking west in
    SECOND first court towards
    pillared pavilion leading
    COURTYARD into the second court

    Detail of central bay


    of stone pailou in
    second court

    Freestanding brick pier with stone tablet in second


    court One of two brick piers in the second court, with
    floral motifs carved in brick and stone dragonheads
    crowning the hipped roof

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE


    THIRD COURTYARD View looking west through
    pavilion separating the second
    court from the third court

    The Bangke Tower of


    Introspection in the third
    court

    Residential area beyond the southern side of


    the third and fourth courts

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE


    FOURTH COURTYARD One of three identical doorways between
    the third and fourth courts

    Detail of carved detail on doorway

    Light through lattice wall

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE


    Detail of carved detail on doorway
    View of Phoenix Pavilion

    Carved stone stele on


    gate of the fourth court

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE


    View looking east across Moon Platform in
    the fourth court towards the stone archways
    known as the Cloud Gates

    Fountains and garden to the west


    of the Phoenix Pavilion

    Ornament atop lintel of the


    central Cloud Gate

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE


    FIFTH View looking northwest across the
    COURTYARD Moon Platform towards the prayer
    hall portico

    Detail of hipped roof of the prayer


    hall, with upswept eave and
    dragonheads along ridge

    Rounded tiles of prayer hall roof


    covered in moss

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE


    Prayer hall portico with red lacquered
    woodwork and dougong brackets below the
    ceiling

    View of the intricately worked mihrab in


    rich and somber hues

    Detail of carved stonework on


    the roof of Lintel of the side entrance into
    the prayer hall prayer hall, facing south

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE 11


    Caisson ceiling of the Bangke Tower
    of Introspection

    ALPINE SKI HOUSE

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