List of mosques in Tibet
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This is a list of mosques in Tibet.
It lists mosques (Arabic: Masjid, Lhasa Tibetan:ཁ་ཆེ་ལྷ་ཁང་།)[a] in Tibet, Asia.
Historically Tibet has had 11 mosques, but only 6 survive.[1][2]
List of mosques in Tibet
[edit]| Location | Name | Image | Established | Current condition | Notes & References[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lhasa | Kha-che Glingka Mosque (Chinese: 卡契林卡清真寺) |
≈1678 | Existing | It have been obtained during the land granting process by the Fifth Dalai Lama.[3] | |
| Hebalin Great Mosque (Chinese: 阿坝林大清真寺) |
 |
1716 | Existing | [4][5] | |
| Barkhor Rapsel Alley Mosque (Chinese: 饶赛巷小清真寺) |
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≈1900 | Existing | [4][5] | |
| Duodigou Mosque (Chinese: 夺底清真寺) |
1716 | Existing | The located where the "Pilaf Festival" is held.[4] | ||
| Lhasa Small Mosque | n/a | Existed in 10th century, today no longer in existence | It may have been destroyed by a civilian riot triggered by the anti-Buddhist incident of the last Tibetan king, Langdarma.[6][5] | ||
| Tzashen Mosque (Chinese: 扎什城清真寺) |
≈1733 | destroyed in 1761 | [4][5] | ||
| Shigatse | Bang-Jia Lin-ka Mosque (Chinese: 邦加林清真寺) |
c.1700 AD | Existing | [4][5] | |
| Qamdo | Qamdo Mosque (Chinese: 昌都清真寺) |
1702 | Existing | The original building was built in the style of the Han Chinese courtyard.[4] | |
| Tsetang | Zedang Mosque[b] (Chinese: 泽当清真寺) |
N/a | recently built | See the books "No Passport to Tibet"[7] and "Islam in Tibet: Tibetan Caravans"[8] and folk oral accounts. [4] | |
| Ngari | Guge Mosque (Chinese: 古格清真寺) |
n/a | destroyed in 1626 | See the book "魂牵雪域: 西藏最早的天主教传教会".[9][10][5] |
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ Some Info:-
- Most Tibetans call the mosque as Kache-Lhakhang(་ཁ་ཆེ་ལྷ་ཁང་།), which can be understood as "Muslim temple".
- Tibetan Muslims generally call mosques as ChakTsäl-khang (ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཁང་།), which means the place/palace for salah
- ↑ Add:-No. 78, Gongbu Road, Zedang Town, Naidong District, Shannan City, Tibet Autonomous Region.
- ↑ Tsiden, Tundrup (2014-09-01). 西藏清真寺考略 [A Textual Research on the Mosques in Tibet]. 西藏大学学报（社会科学版） [Journal of Tibet University (Social Sciences Edition)] (in Chinese). 29 (3): 96–102. ISSN 1005-5738. 1005-5738(2014)03-0096-07. Retrieved 2025-10-07.
摘要： 西藏的清真寺在历史上共有11座,其中拉萨有6座,日喀则有2座,昌都有1座,山南泽当和阿里古格各有1座。
[Historically, Tibet has had 11 mosques: six in Lhasa, two in Shigatse, one in Qamdo, and one each in Shannan's Tsetang and Ngari's Guge.] - ↑ 马强, 强; 马生福, 生福 (September 2018). 邢广程 (ed.). 史料所见西藏穆斯林和伊斯兰教遗迹述略与补正 (in Chinese). 北京: 社会科学文献出版社.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - 1 2 "[周传斌]世界屋脊上的伊斯兰文化 · 中国民俗学网-中国民俗学会 · 主办 ·". www.chinesefolklore.org.cn. Archived from the original on 2025-09-17. Retrieved 2025-09-17.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ma & Ma 2018, p. 2117.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jin, Yijiu; Ho, Wai-yip, eds. (2017-01-09). Islam. Religious Studies in Contemporary China Collection. Vol. 6. Translated by Chan, Alex Ching-shing. Leiden; Boston: Brill. ASIN B01FEK4Q1Y. doi:10.1163/9789047428008. ISBN 978-90-474-2800-8. LCCN 2016042753. OCLC 1062389931. Archived from the original on 2025-11-11.
- ↑ 伊斯兰教卷 (in Chinese). 民族出版社. 2008. ISBN 978-7-105-09109-6. Archived from the original on 2025-11-11.
- ↑ Bailey, Frederick Marshman (1957). No Passport to Tibet. Hart-Davis. p. 183.
- ↑ Radhu, Abdul Wahid (1997). Henry, Gray (ed.). Islam in Tibet: Tibetan Caravans. Translated by Casewit, Jane. Foreword by the 14th Dalai Lama; preface by Marco Pallis. Louisville, Kentucky: Fons Vitae. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-887752-03-9. LCCN 00275550. OCLC 40292757. OL 6809717M. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-09-30.
- ↑ 托斯卡诺; Toscano, Giuseppe M. (1998). 魂牵雪域: 西藏最早的天主教传教会 (in Chinese). 中国藏学出版社. ISBN 978-7-80057-326-2.
- ↑ 周伟洲 (2018-12-01). 西北民族论丛（第18辑） (in Chinese). 社会科学文献出版社. ISBN 978-7-5201-3919-9. Archived from the original on 2025-11-11.
Further reading
[edit]- Ma, Qiang; Ma, Shengfu (September 2018). 史料所见西藏穆斯林和伊斯兰教遗迹述略与补正 [An Overview and Corrections of Tibetan Muslims and Islamic Remains as Seen in Historical Sources]. In Xing, Guangcheng (ed.). Borderland Studies of China 中国边疆学（第九辑） (in Chinese). Vol. 9. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press. pp. 123–153. Archived from the original on 5 July 2026. Other link
- 周伟洲 (2018-12-01). 西北民族论丛（第18辑） (in Chinese). 社会科学文献出版社. pp. 342–55. ISBN 978-7-5201-3919-9.
External links
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- 达瓦 (2014-01-01). 古城拉萨市区历史地名考 (in Chinese). 社会科学文献出版社. pp. 158–62. ISBN 978-7-5097-5179-4.
- 张广林 (2005). 中国伊斯兰教 (in Chinese). 五洲传播出版社. ISBN 978-7-5085-0801-6. Archived from the original on 2025-10-26.
old Kache Mosque
- Yang, Xiaochun (2016-12-21). "The festival of fast-breaking Eid al-Fitr in the Great Mosque of Lhasa. Some observations". Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines. 47 (47). doi:10.4000/emscat.2867. ISSN 0766-5075.