Id Kah Mosque
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mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
Key facts
- Affiliation
- Islam
- Status
- Active as a tourist site; closed to worship except for elderly worshipers on select days.
- Location
- Kashgar , Xinjiang
- Country
- China
- Architect
- Saqsiz Mirza
- Type
- Mosque
- Style
- Ming
- Completed
- 1442 CE
- Capacity
- 20,000 worshipers
- Length
- 120 m (390 ft)
- Width
- 140 m (460 ft)
- Interior area
- 16,800 m (181,000 sq ft)
- Minaret height
- 18 m (59 ft)
- Official name
- Id Kah Mosque, 艾提尕尔清真寺
- Criteria
- Religion
- Designated
- 25 June 2001
- Reference no
- 5-0440-3-246
- Uyghur
- ھېيتگاھ مەسچىتى
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mosque
- Religion
- Islam
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Kashgar
- Area
- 16800
- Founded by
- China
- Image
- Hëytgah Mosque, Kashi (20230923100109).jpg
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- Commons category
- Id Kah Mosque
- heritage designation
- Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
- catalog code
- 440
- native label
- قەشقەر
- inception
- 1442-00-00
- architectural style
- Islamic architecture
- maximum capacity
- 20000
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Encyclopedic overview
Chinese name Simplified Chinese艾提尕尔清真寺 Traditional Chinese艾提尕爾清真寺
The Id Kah Mosque (Uyghur: ھېيتگاھ مەسچىتى, romanized: Hëytgah Meschiti; Chinese: 艾提尕尔清真寺; pinyin: Àitígǎ'ěr Qīngzhēnsì; derived from Persian: عیدگاه, romanized: Eidgāh, lit. 'Place of Festivities') is a mosque in Kashgar, in the Xinjiang autonomous region of China. With the capacity of 20,000 worshipers inside the mosque and its sahn, it is the largest mosque in China.
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