Huaisheng Mosque
The Huaisheng Mosque is the main mosque of Guangzhou, located in the Yuexiu District, in the Guangdong Province of China. Rebuilt many times over its history, some historical texts claim that it was first built in the 7th century, but modern scholarship places its foundation at a later period during the Tang or Song dynasties.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Mosque
- Denomination: Sunni
- Description: mosque in Guangdong
- Also known as: “Lighthouse Mosque”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ximenkou and Temple of the Six Banyan Trees.
Ximenkou
Railway station
Photo: TimWu007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ximenkou Station is a station on Line 1 of the Guangzhou Metro that started operations on 28 June 1999. It is situated under Zhongshan 6th Road in the Yuexiu District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China. Ximenkou is situated 410 metres northwest of Huaisheng Mosque.
Temple of the Six Banyan Trees
Buddhist temple
Photo: Legolas1024, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Temple of the Six Banyan Trees or Liurong Temple is a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou, China, originally built in AD 537. The temple's proximity to foreign consulates in Guangzhou has made it a regular destination for families participating in the international adoption of children from China. Temple of the Six Banyan Trees is situated 540 metres north of Huaisheng Mosque.
Temple of the Five Immortals
Place of worship
Photo: Dzb0715, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Temple of the Five Immortals, formerly incorrectly translated as the Temple of the Five Genii, is a former Taoist temple in Guangzhou, Guangdong, in China. It lies beside the junction of West Huifu Road and Liurong Rd. Temple of the Five Immortals is situated 280 metres south of Huaisheng Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guangta and Liurong.
Guangta
Suburb
Guangta is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.
Liurong
Suburb
Photo: Iamdavidtheking, CC BY 3.0.
Liurong is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.
Guangzhou
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18.7 million, making it China's fourth-largest city after Chongqing, Shanghai and Beijing.
Huaisheng Mosque
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Guangzhou Shi, Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.12581° or 23° 7′ 33″ northLongitude
113.25361° or 113° 15′ 13″ eastOpen location code
7PMM47G3+8COpenStreetMap ID
way 582730182OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=sunniWikidata ID
Q992508
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Huaisheng Mosque” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مسجد هوايشينغ”
- Bashkir: “Хуайшэн мәсете”
- Bengali: “হুয়াইশেং মসজিদ”
- Catalan: “Mesquita Huaisheng”
- Chinese: “光塔寺”
- Chinese: “怀圣光塔寺”
- Chinese: “怀圣寺”
- Chinese: “懷聖光塔寺”
- Chinese: “懷聖寺”
- Chinese: “礼拜寺”
- Chinese: “禮拜寺”
- Chinese: “龍鳳寺”
- Chinese: “龙凤寺”
- Dutch: “Huaishengmoskee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد هوايشينج”
- Finnish: “Huaishengin moskeija”
- French: “mosquée Huaisheng”
- French: “Mosquée Huaisheng”
- German: “Huaisheng-Moschee”
- Hindi: “हुइशेंग मस्जिद”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Huaisheng”
- Italian: “Moschea del Faro”
- Italian: “moschea di Huaisheng”
- Italian: “Moschea di Huaisheng”
- Japanese: “懐聖寺”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Huaisheng”
- Malay: “Masjid Huaisheng”
- Persian: “مسجد هواشنگ”
- Polish: “Meczet Huaisheng”
- Romanian: “Moscheea Huaisheng”
- Russian: “Мечеть Хуайшэн”
- Sindhi: “ھوائشينگ مسجد”
- Spanish: “Mezquita Huaisheng”
- Tatar: “Хуайшэн мәчете”
- Thai: “มัสยิดหฺวายเชิ่ง”
- Turkish: “Huaisheng Camii”
- Ukrainian: “Мечеть Хуайшен”
- Urdu: “مسجد ہوائشنگ”
- Uzbek: “Huaisheng masjidi”
- Western Mari: “Хуайшэн мечеть”
- Yue Chinese: “懷聖寺”
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