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The Mosque is located at No. 115 Sanxing Street, West District, Changsha City. The provincial and municipal Islamic associations are based here. In the 50th year of the Kangxi reign (1711), Muslim merchants from Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, and other places raised funds to build it, calling it the Guest Mosque. In the 7th year of the Republic of China (1918), Muslim merchants from Nanjing traveling in Hunan raised funds to build the Jingling Charity School on the south side of the Guest Mosque. However, these buildings were all destroyed in the Great Fire of Changsha in 1938. The original mosque was relatively large, covering an area of 1,800 square meters, consisting of the main hall, water room, north and south lecture halls, funeral room, and imam's quarters, in traditional Chinese temple-style architecture. The current mosque was rebuilt after the 1938 fire, covering 1,400 square meters, in ordinary residential style, consisting of a prayer hall and several attached rooms. Muslim worship and religious activities for the three major festivals in Changsha are all held here. During the "Cultural Revolution," the handwritten Qurans by successive imams preserved in the mosque were burned, leaving only one porcelain incense burner from the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, inscribed with Arabic script. After the mosque resumed religious activities, it received many groups of Muslim friends from Pakistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Hong Kong, and other countries and regions. In 1985, the people's government allocated 850,000 yuan to build the Ancient Mosque above the Baisha Ancient Well, with a building area of 1,500 square meters, in the style of a large-domed Arab architecture.
