BEIJING (AP) — A rare public protest by thousands of Hui Muslims this month was caused by local officials’ recklessness, Chinese authorities said Thursday, without settling concerns a large mosque in ...

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 ...

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BEIJING — Hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims are staging a sit-in protest in China’s western region of Ningxia against government plans to demolish a huge new mosque, amid tightening curbs on Islam to ...

Muslims are the latest religious group to suffer persecution at the hands of the government. UCA News reports that the authorities are destroying mosques by removing domes and religious motifs. The ...

Flags should be hung in a "prominent position" in all mosque courtyards, the China Islamic Association said in a letter published Saturday on its website. This would "further strengthen the ...

BEIJING (AP) — Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare, public pushback to the government’s efforts to rewrite how ...

Hundreds of Muslims fought with armed police who demolished a mosque in north China, local police and a human rights group said on Monday, with several people injured in the “riot”. The violence ...

This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to ...