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Id Kah Mosque

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July 2nd 2013
Hi All, We had a lovely evening on our first night here. We went for a stroll around the old town and then we visited the mosque. It's the biggest mosque that we;ve visited so far in China. The mosque dates from 1442 and can hold upto 20000 people. The prayer hall was closed but there is a man who will unlock it and let you in, quite why the prayer hall is closed to the locals I'm not ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more