Id Kah Mosque
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- For the mosque in Afghanistan, see Id Gah Mosque
The Id Kah mosque (Chinese: 艾提朵爾; pinyin: àitídǔoěr) is a mosque located in Kashgar, Xinjiang, in the western People's Republic of China. It is the largest mosque in China. Every Friday, it houses nearly 10,000 worshippers.[citation needed]
The mosque was built by Saqsiz Mirza in 1422 (although it included older structures dating back to the 8th century) and covers 16,800 square meters. The mosque was started in 996.
It was at the center of a sharp rise in tension between the Muslim Uyghurs and the ruling Han Chinese in Xinjiang in 2003, when developers razed a rose garden on the mosque site and built an enclosed market nearby.
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- List of famous mosques
- Timeline of Islamic history
- Islamic architecture
- Islamic art
- List of mosques
- Islam in China
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