Dilapidated interior of the Huihuiying Mosque (回子營清真寺), Beijing

Collection

Identifier

PF01-07

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Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: PF01-07. Photograph by John Thomson. See scans of Thomson's negative (Wellcome Collection refs: 19512i and 19513i). Huihuiying Mosque [回子營清真寺; 回回营清真寺遗存; Huiziying mosque; mosque of the Turkic-Muslim Camp; Fragrant Concubine’s Mosque], in Western Chang’an Street, Donganfu Hutong, near Beihai Park, Beijing. The mosque was built during the Qing Dynasty, and unusually, faced north towards the Imperial Place, rather than westwards towards Mecca, “rendering it effectively defunct” (source: Tristan G. Brown ‘Towards an Understanding of Qianlong’s Conception of Islam: A Study of the Dedication Inscriptions of the Fragrant Concubine’s Mosque in the Imperial Capital’). The mosque was demolished in 1915. See James A. Millward ‘A Uyghur Muslim in Qianlong’s Court: The Meaning of the Fragrant Concubine’ (1994) and https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1954657402793202541. See also Bo01-056.

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1868-1871

Photographer

Thomson, John

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph