China is removing domes and minarets from thousands of mosques. Authorities are taking down overtly Islamic architecture as part of a... China is removing domes from mosques as part of a push to make ...
A Chinese government official at the Sino-Arab cooperation forum in Beijing, in front of an Arabic sign reading "cooperation" / AP Arriving at a Guangzhou construction site on assignment for a Chinese ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. REPORTING FROM BEIJING -- The government demolition of a newly ...
Chinese authorities are removing the dome roofs from thousands of mosques across that country. They say the domes are evidence of Arab influence. It's part of a push to sinify ethnic groups - as in, ...
FILE - In this July 18, 2015, file photo, Chinese Hui Muslims pray during Eid al-Fitr prayers at Niujie Mosque in Beijing. Authorities in northwestern China were poised to begin demolition of a mosque ...
Officials in an autonomous region of northwest mainland China intended to demolish a mosque on Friday, but were met by hundreds of protesters. The move comes amid a nation-wide effort to clamp down on ...
Mosques in riot-hit Urumqi have been ordered to stay closed for Friday prayers in the wake of ethnic violence that left 156 dead, a Chinese official said, and another city in Xinjiang province has ...
XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. Built in the style of a Chinese imperial palace, with tiled ...
China wants to changes mosques to make them more Chinese. The mosque campaign has triggered a discussion on what being Chinese really means. Chinese authorities are removing the dome roofs from ...