The Baba
Mosque is one of the famous mosques in China. It is also called
the Jiuzhao Pavilion, the Baoning Mosque, Panlong Mountain Qubbah.
It is located on Panlong Mountain near Langzhong City, Sichuan
Province.
The mosque
has a religious origin. It was originally the graveyard of a
famous Islamic leader and scholar. His followers built a series
of buildings here. These buildings were expanded with the help
and support of the government. A building complex composed of
Chinese and Islam architectures finally came into being.
The mosque covers an area of 13,000 square meters.
The major buildings include the temple gate, the entrance wall,
the cemetery, the sermon room, the guest room, the stele pavilion,
and the worship hall, etc. The temple gate is a wood-and-stone
construction. There are tablets and carved pattern on the temple
gate. Embossments carved on the entrance wall are rare artworks.
The cemetery is the main part of the mosque and is composed
of the arched entrance, the cemetery gate, the decorated archway,
and the Jiuzhao Pavilion. There are sermon rooms and worship
halls outside the cemetery.
In the mosque
there are lots of cultural relics, most of which are epigraphs.
The mosque is still the main congregation place for Dagongbei
Menhuan, one of the main sects of Islam in China.
