Islam was founded in West Asia, so why was its temple built in faraway China?

The mosque is also known as the Xi'an Huajue Lane Mosque, why is it called the Great Mosque?

The mosque is named after its size, which is larger than other mosques in Xi'an. Liang Sicheng, the master of architecture, highly praised the Huajue Temple, saying that it is "an Islamic temple built in the traditional Chinese architectural art form". Huajue Lane Mosque is China's majestic architecture, quiet environment, large-scale, the most complete preservation and one of the world-famous Islamic temple, belonging to the national cultural relics protection units.

The temple was built in an unknown era, but because the temple memory has a party written by Frank Wang in the first year of the Tang Dynasty's Tianbao (A.D. 742), "the creation of the mosque monument," so there is a legend of the beginning of the Tang Dynasty.

Hua Jue Lane Mosque through the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing generations of maintenance and expansion, and gradually formed today's huge ancient building complex scale. Its architectural style reflects the organic unity of Islamic culture and traditional Chinese architectural art, and is by far one of the most distinctive and typical Chinese-style mosques in China, which is an important historical and cultural heritage of the Hui people, and also a valuable treasure of all mankind.

The big temple sits two toward the east, the whole temple is an east-west rectangle, surrounded by green brick wall, covers an area of about 18 acres. The whole temple along the east-west axis is divided into four courtyards, building a total area of **** about 4,000 square meters.

The first courtyard brick carving large shadow wall and wooden pagoda separated from the east and west, after the pagoda is five buildings, all the ancient colors, magnificent and elegant.

Second into the center of the courtyard erected a stone memorial hall, for three four-poster, lintel engraved with "Heavenly Supervisor in this", the two sides of the lintel engraved with "Chin Ji Zhaoshi" and "piety provincial rites". Before and after the plaque canals, two stone monuments built on both sides, embedded in the brick structure of the niche.

The third courtyard at the entrance to the Royal Palace, the main door of the mosque was repaired during the Ming Jiajing period, the width of the hall 3. Single-eaved hermetic roof, the Zhu door. Single-eaved hermetic roof, Zhu door gold nails, brick carvings and silver decorations, hanging on the door of the "Royal Decree of the Temple of Worship" gold horizontal plaque. Inside the temple there is Arabic "moon tablet". In the center of the courtyard behind the temple there is a provincial heart building, also known as the Bunker building, for the octagonal three-storey three eave Hong Kong pointed roof, wooden structure.

The fourth into the main body of the temple, the west side of the joint base above the Hall of Worship, single-eaved hermit-style, green glazed roof, arch five stepped on, the face width of seven, four deep, after the building kiln Hall, width and depth of three rooms, the Hall was convex plan, an area of 1,300 square meters, more than 1,000 people can be worship. The ceiling ceiling, the ground paved with wooden planks.

The whole building to form a magnificent classical architectural complex, with its perfect composition, layout, left and right reflecting the belt, the center of the outstanding features, become an outstanding representative of the classical architecture of the Chinese mosque.